Table 3.

Effects of taurine supplementation on the growth performance of LPS-challenged broilers¹

	Treatment2
Item	CON	LPS	LPS + T1	LPS + T2	P-value
1 to 15 d (before the LPS challenge)
1 d BW, g	43.61 ± 0.11	43.73 ± 0.10	43.66 ± 0.07	43.81 ± 0.07	0.415
15 d BW, g	524.08 ± 2.99	523.66 ± 7.97	564.64 ± 20.84	541.33 ± 15.30	0.135
ADG, g/d	30.03 ± 0.19	30.00 ± 0.50	32.56 ± 1.30	31.10 ± 0.96	0.136
ADFI, g/d	47.51 ± 0.61	47.23 ± 0.39	48.95 ± 2.16	47.49 ± 0.44	0.717
G:F, g/g	0.63 ± 0.01	0.64 ± 0.01	0.67 ± 0.02	0.65 ± 0.01	0.283
16 to 21 d (during the LPS challenge)
21 d BW, g	743.58 ± 11.93ab	720.16 ± 9.35a	782.64 ± 21.09b	763.08 ± 14.65ab	0.038
ADG, g/d	43.90 ± 1.01a	39.30 ± 0.38b	43.60 ± 0.99a	44.35 ± 0.52a	<0.001
ADFI, g/d	69.15 ± 1.52	65.48 ± 0.80	68.95 ± 1.37	68.61 ± 0.97	0.127
G:F, g/g	0.64 ± 0.01ab	0.60 ± 0.01b	0.63 ± 0.02ab	0.65 ± 0.01a	0.055

¹Data are means ± SEM, n = 8.

²CON, control basal diet; LPS, LPS challenged broilers fed CON; LPS+T1, LPS challenged broilers fed CON supplemented with 5 g/kg taurine; LPS+T2, LPS challenged broilers fed CON supplemented with 7.5 g/lg taurine.

^a,bMeans within the same row with no common superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05).