Table 3.

Body weight (BW), average daily gain (ADG), average daily feed intake (ADFI) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) of the birds fed with the experimental diets (hydroxychloride trace minerals, HTM and sulphate trace minerals, STM) in high and low dosages (± standard error)

		STM		HTM		P-value
	Day	High	Low	High	Low	Source	Level	Source× Level
BW, g	0	43.2 ± 0.2	43.2 ± 0.1	43.5 ± 0.3	43.2 ± 0.2	0.3240	0.3747	0.4937
	10	275.7 ± 4.1	278.2 ± 2.0	277.6 ± 3.0	279.1 ± 2.0	0.5471	0.3927	0.7652
	27	1774.0 ± 12.7	1787.4 ± 12.2	1810.2 ± 168	1806.1 ± 9.9	0.0229	0.6872	0.1112
	34	2463.7 ± 13.5	2476.0 ± 15.3	2506.9 ± 21.6	2493.1 ± 18.3	0.0542	0.9657	0.2137
ADG, g/(bird·d)	0–10	23.3 ± 0.4	23.5 ± 0.2	23.4 ± 0.3	23.6 ± 0.2	0.6950	0.4004	0.8352
	10–27	88.2 ± 0.6	88.8 ± 0.6	90.2 ± 0.8	89.8 ± 0.5	0.0738	0.8970	0.3155
	27–34	98.7 ± 0.8	98.3 ± 0.9	99.5 ± 1.2	98.2 ± 1.4	0.7133	0.4015	0.7773
	0–34	71.0 ± 0.4	71.6 ± 0.5	72.5 ± 0.6	72.2 ± 0.5	0.0130	0.7071	0.3407
ADFI, g/(bird·d)	0–10	25.1 ± 0.4	25.2 ± 0.3	25.1 ± 0.4	25.4 ± 0.3	0.6246	0.4419	0.7749
	10–27	121.2 ± 0.8	122.0 ± 0.9	123.4 ± 1.2	123.8 ± 1.0	0.0846	0.6205	0.3499
	27–34	156.8 ± 1.8	157.0 ± 1.1	158.3 ± 1.0	156.0 ± 1.7	0.8866	0.4835	0.7457
	0–34	99.8 ± 0.6	100.6 ± 0.6	101.5 ± 0.8	101.5 ± 0.7	0.0125	0.4312	0.4505
FCR	0–10	1.088 ± 0.007	1.071 ± 0.001	1.073 ± 0.015	1.078 ± 0.012	0.7182	0.6065	0.7631
	10–27	1.374 ± 0.006	1.374 ± 0.004	1.369 ± 0.004	1.378 ± 0.006	0.9621	0.6985	0.9611
	27–34	1.590 ± 0.020	1.597 ± 0.010	1.593 ± 0.016	1.591 ± 0.026	0.8683	0.8420	0.9797
	0–34	1.406 ± 0.008	1.406 ± 0.034	1.402 ± 0.005	1.407 ± 0.008	0.7415	0.6981	0.6875

P-values below 0.1 are bolded