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Table 2.

Effects of dietary supplementation of α-GML of growth performance in broilers.

Items	Treatments¹				SEM	P-value
Items	NCO	ANT	GML1	GML2	SEM	P-value
BW, g
1 d	35.53	35.49	35.46	35.23	0.08	0.506
28 d	472.50^b	512.68^a	521.79^a	508.61^a	6.20	0.001
56 d	1,490.00^b	1,540.98^a	1,559.98^a	1,540.23^a	6.17	0.001
ADG, (g/day)
1–28 d	15.61^b	17.04^a	17.37^a	16.91^a	0.16	0.001
29–56 d	36.34	36.73	37.08	36.84	0.15	0.42
1–56 d	25.97^b	26.88^a	27.22^a	26.88^a	0.11	0.001

^a,bMean with different superscripts in the same row differ significantly (P < 0.05).

Abbreviations: ANT, basal diet supplemented with 30 mg/kg bacitracin; GLM, glycerol monolaurate; GML1, basal diet supplemented with 500 mg/kg α-GML; GML2, basal diet supplemented with 1,000 mg/kg α-GML; NCO, basal diet provided as control.

The mean represent results from 8 replicate cages per treatment.