Table 7.
Effects of either including soybean oil (T1) or soybean lecithin (T5), as added fats, on jejunum morphology and microbiological plate counts in broiler chickens of 46 d.
| Item | Dietary treatments1 |
RSE | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | T5 | |||
| Morphology measurements2 | ||||
| Villus height (μm) | 1,347 | 1,254 | 167.0 | 0.358 |
| Crypt depth (μm) | 210 | 212 | 26.2 | 0.912 |
| VH:CD | 6.21 | 6.11 | 0.235 | 0.585 |
| Microbiology (log UFC/g)3 | ||||
| Enterococcus faecium | 6.47 | 6.33 | 0.760 | 0.761 |
| Enterobacteria | 4.17 | 5.65 | 1.523 | 0.143 |
| Lactobacillus spp. | 8.31 | 8.54 | 0.158 | 0.049 |
Values within the same row with no common superscripts are significantly different, P ≤ 0.05.
Abbreviations: RSE, residual standard error; VH:CD, villus height-to-crypt depth ratio.
1
T1 = soybean oil at 2.00%; T5 = soybean lecithin at 2.00%.
2
Results are means of 10 measurements of intact villus and crypts per replicate.
3
Pool of three chickens per replicate.