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. 2019 Dec 6;99(3):1409–1420. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2019.10.053

Table 3.

Mean body weight gain of broiler chickens fed diets containing varying concentrations of lysine from hatch to 8 WOA.

Weeks of age
Sex	Lysine (%)		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
Sex	Starter	Grower	g body weight gain/week								Total
M	0.85	0.75	58^c	99^c	170^c	259^c	319^c	343^c	287^b	445^c	1,983^c
	1.14	1.00	86^b	185^b	325^b	517^b	486^b	595^b	739^a	557^b	3,493^b
	1.42	1.25	119^a	255^a	368^a	552^a	685^a	796^a	672^a	699^a	4,147^a
SEM			2.4	6.5	9.7	11.8	15.6	24.1	40.7	18.0	128.7
F	0.85	0.75	58^c	94^c	176^b	251^c	296^c	333^b	275^c	333^c	1,820^c
	1.14	1.00	83^b	172^b	325^a	407^b	465^b	538^a	333^b	541^a	2,868^b
	1.42	1.25	94^a	227^a	322^a	471^a	546^a	529^a	557^a	467^b	3,216^a
SEM			3.1	5.9	9.2	13.2	15.6	23.5	15.4	17.9	103.8

^a–cMeans within sex and column with no common superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).

Abbreviations: M, male; F, female; WOA, weeks of age.