Table 2.

Evaluation of body weight, body weight gain, peptide YY, and FITC-d in neonatal female turkey poults fed with a rye–soybean–based diet with or without dietary inclusion of a Bacillus direct-fed microbial (DFM) in trials 1 and 2 at day 10 of age.

Treatment	Body weight day 1 (g)	Body weight day 10 (g)	Body weight gain (g)	Peptide YY (ng/mL)	FITC-d (ng/mL)
Trial 1
Control	61.33 ± 0.41a	160.52 ± 3.01b	99.19 ± 2.96b	2.55 ± 0.69a	602.71 ± 18.06a
DFM	60.12 ± 0.37a	170.04 ± 3.55a	109.92 ± 2.85a	0.4 ± 0.16b	126.85 ± 7.37b
Trial 2
Control	61.33 ± 0.54a	150.52 ± 5.21b	89.19 ± 2.96b	3.15 ± 0.45a	802.41 ± 28.16a
DFM	59.12 ± 0.48a	165.04 ± 6.35a	105.92 ± 3.55a	0.64 ± 0.26b	216.15 ± 17.07b

^a,bSuperscripts within columns indicate significant difference at P < 0.05.

Abbreviation: FITC-d, fluorescein isothiocyanate-dextran.

Data are expressed as mean ± SE. Body weight, n = 25 individual turkeys; Peptide YY and FITC-d, n = 20 serum samples.