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

Table 6.

Lysine consumption 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 Lysine/week								Total
M	0.85	0.75	0.68^c	1.69^c	2.33^c	4.05^c	4.95^c	5.66^c	5.70^c	7.76^c	32.81^c
	1.14	1.00	1.33^b	2.92^b	5.39^b	6.90^b	10.07^b	9.46^b	18.62^b	16.87^b	71.56^b
	1.42	1.25	1.95^a	4.52^a	7.25^a	11.02^a	15.18^a	20.26^a	20.03^a	21.07^a	101.3^a
SEM			0.37	0.82	1.43	2.02	2.95	4.37	4.56	3.93	19.83
F	0.85	0.75	0.68^c	1.38^c	2.46^c	3.68^c	5.10^c	5.60^c	5.93^c	6.84^c	31.68^c
	1.14	1.00	1.38^b	2.82^b	5.25^b	7.12^b	9.66^b	8.79^b	14.08^b	13.73^b	62.77^b
	1.42	1.25	1.81^a	4.29^a	6.49^a	9.39^a	13.76^a	17.98^a	16.68^a	17.62^a	87.99^a
SEM			0.33	0.84	1.19	1.66	2.5	3.71	3.24	3.15	16.28

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

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