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. 2019 Dec 12;99(2):879–885. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2019.09.001

Table 1.

Effect of dietary EL treatment and variety on performance of Japanese quails.

Trait Eucalyptus level (L)
Variety (V)
SEM P value
0% 0.1% 0.2% Gray White L V L*V
Body weight, g 199.9 197.8 205.6 204.7 197.7 1.75 0.24 0.09 0.27
Production, % 95.9 95.7 95.6 96.8a 94.6b 0.33 0.89 <0.01 0.98
Egg weight, g 11.5 11.5 11.5 11.6a 11.4b 0.02 0.96 <0.01 0.67
Egg mass, g 465.1 461.8 462.4 470.3a 455.9b 1.72 0.44 <0.01 0.88
Feed consumption, g 907.5 943.6 925.3 945.4a 910.5b 10.34 0.39 0.03 0.15
Feed conversion ratio 1.96 2.05 2.00 2.02 2.00 0.02 0.43 0.42 0.18
Broken eggs, % 3.2a 2.8b 2.5b 2.3b 3.3a 0.21 0.05 0.02 0.52

a,bMeans within a row with different superscript letters for each factor are significantly different.

Abbreviations: EL, Eucalyptus leaves; SEM, standard error of mean.