Table 7.
Groups 1 | Cinnamon (mg/kg) | ||||||
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Parameters | NC | PC | 2000 | 4000 | 6000 | SEM 2 | p-Value |
Pancreas | 0.451 3 | 0.43 | 0.4 | 0.41 | 0.44 | 0.014 | 0.838 |
Heart | 0.68 | 0.65 | 0.66 | 0.66 | 0.72 | 0.015 | 0.58 |
Liver | 2.85 | 2.76 | 2.87 | 3.04 | 2.88 | 0.052 | 0.583 |
Proventriculus | 0.86 | 0.81 | 0.89 | 0.88 | 0.89 | 0.016 | 0.47 |
Gizzard | 3.13 | 2.87 | 2.96 | 3.03 | 2.91 | 0.041 | 0.254 |
Bursa | 0.21 | 0.26 | 0.23 | 0.2 | 0.26 | 0.0102 | 0.287 |
Spleen | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.005 | 0.401 |
Thymus | 0.41 | 0.51 | 0.45 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.024 | 0.192 |
Breast | 15.65 b | 18.37 a | 19.05 a | 18.08 a | 18.67 a | 0.329 | 0.011 |
Legs | 16.23 | 16.37 | 16.89 | 15.94 | 16.13 | 0.21 | 0.745 |
1 NC: negative control group = commercial feed, no additives by cinnamon powder; PC: positive control group = commercial feed, treated by antibiotic Colimox powder (mixture of amoxicillin and colistin at 200 and 150 mg/kg, respectively); levels 2000, 4000, and 6000 mg/kg treated groups = commercial feed, treated by cinnamon powder; 2 SEM, standard error of mean for treatment effect. 3 Data are mean of eight chicks per treatment (one bird/replicate). a,b Mean values within rows with different superscripts are significantly different (p < 0.05).