Table 5.
Effect of xylanase with and without arabinofuranosidase and or ferulic acid esterase in wheat-based diets fed to broilers.
| Treatment | 21-d performance |
36-d performance |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BW, g | ADFI, g/bird/d | FCR, g/g | BW, g | ADFI, g/bird/d | FCR, g/g | |
| Control | 0.69a | 46.94 | 1.52a | 1.85a | 96.46 | 1.97a |
| Xyl | 0.72ab | 47.51 | 1.47bc | 1.94a | 96.26 | 1.88b |
| Xyl + ARB | 0.73ab | 48.12 | 1.46bc | 1.82a | 90.90 | 1.88b |
| Xyl + FAE | 0.74bc | 47.13 | 1.43c | 1.92a | 93.48 | 1.84bc |
| Xyl + ARB + FAE | 0.76c | 49.18 | 1.43c | 2.08b | 97.39 | 1.77c |
Adapted from Lei et al. (2016).
Values with the same letter within a column are not significantly different at P < 0.05.
Abbreviations: ARB, arabinofuranosidase; FAE, ferulic acid esterase; FCR, feed conversion ratio; Xyl, xylanase.