. 2021 Feb 5;99(2):skab033. doi: 10.1093/jas/skab033

Table 3.

Effects of oregano essential oil on growth performance of yellow-feathered chickens in the starter phase¹

	Treatments2
Variables	CON	AB	OEO-150	OEO-300	SEM	P-value
1-d BW, g	33.50	33.58	33.52	33.55	<0.01	0.961
30-d BW, g	289.3^b	295.1^b	304.3^a	306.3^a	3.02	0.002
ADFI, g	18.90^b	18.98^b	19.19^ab	19.91^a	0.270	0.059
ADG, g	8.84^c	9.09^bc	9.34^ab	9.41^a	0.101	0.003
FCR	2.14	2.09	2.06	2.13	0.029	0.200
Mortality, %	0.83	0.42	0.00	0.00	0.005	0.403

¹Data are means with the SEM derived from ANOVA error mean square for n = 6.

2CON, control diet; AB, control diet containing 20 mg/kg virginiamycin; OEO-150, control diet containing 150 mg/kg organic essential oil; OEO-300, control diet containing 300 mg/kd organic essential oil.

^a,b,cMeans within the same row having different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).