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. 2021 Jan 5;11(1):83. doi: 10.3390/ani11010083

Table 3.

Effect of dry, wet and fermented wet feeds on growth performance and digestibility of broiler chickens at 35 days of age.

Item Dry Feed Wet Feed Fermented Wet Feed SEM 1 p-Value
Initial body weight ‘g’ 49.32 49.35 49.31 0.128 0.991
Final body weight ‘g’ 1842.6 a 1765.0 b 1814.5 a 9.715 <0.001
Weight gain ‘g·bird·day−1 51.23 a 49.03 b 50.43 a 0.276 <0.001
Feed intake ‘g·bird·day−1 77.93 81.60 79.38 0.646 0.055
Feed conversion ratio ‘g feed·g gain−1 1.52 b 1.66 a 1.57 b 0.075 <0.001
Crude protein ‘%’ 64.83 b 63.83 b 68.33 a 0.642 0.003
Ether extract ‘%’ 83.83 83.67 84.33 0.431 0.825
Crude fiber ‘%’ 22.67 23.83 23.17 0.319 0.345

Means with different superscripts are significantly different; 1 SEM—standard error of means.