Table 6.
Total short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) concentration in ileum digesta in birds fed control (CON), control supplemented with xylanase (XYL), control supplemented with an emulsifier (EMU), and control diet supplemented with xylanase and emulsifier XYL + EMU.
| Dietary Treatments | Ileum (µmol/g) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acetate | Propionate | Isobutyrate | Butyrate | Isovalerate | Valerate | Total SCFA ** | |
| CON | 5.50 | 0.286 | 0.145 | 0.308 | 0.071 | 0.068 b* | 6.37 |
| ENZ | 6.07 | 0.328 | 0.163 | 0.194 | 0.117 | 0.081 ab | 6.95 |
| EMU | 5.92 | 0.292 | 0.163 | 0.112 | 0.074 | 0.104 ab | 6.67 |
| ENZ + EMU | 5.18 | 0.262 | 0.145 | 0.284 | 0.096 | 0.116 a | 6.46 |
| SEM | 1.54 | 0.011 | 0.004 | 0.044 | 0.0066 | 0.0078 | 2.275 |
| p | 0.553 | 0.286 | 0.998 | 0.698 | 0.571 | <0.01 | 0.992 |
* Mean in a column not sharing a common letter (a–c) are statistically different (p ≤ 0.05); SEM—pooled standard error of mean; ** total SCFA is the sum of the individual SCFA from the table.