Table 5.
Effects of feeding corn silk meal and/or NSP enzyme on carcass, organs weights and abdominal fat weights.
| Treatments | ANOVA | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | Enz | 4% CSM | 8% CSM | 4% CSM + Enz | 8% CSM + Enz | Enz | CSM | Enz × CSM | |
| Carcass, g/100 g BW | 59.87 ± 2.4 b | 66.61 ± 2.01 a | 65.8 ± 1.08 a | 66.92 ± 1.13 a | 65.71 ± 2.32 a | 64.85 ± 1.59 ab | * | * | * |
| Breast muscle, g/100 g BW | 21.26 ± 1.21 cd | 20.88 ± 0.63 d | 21.65 ± 0.36 bcd | 25.63 ± 1.08 a | 24.46 ± 1.18 ab | 23.99 ± 0.86 abc | NS | * | ** |
| Thigh muscle, g/100 g BW | 12.59 ± 0.34 b | 13.97 ± 0.66 ab | 14.91 ± 0.87 ab | 15.02 ± 1.21 ab | 15.63 ± 1.48 ab | 17.18 ± 1.41 a | NS | * | ** |
| Bursa, g/100 g BW | 0.093 ± 0.017 b | 0.13 ± 0.015 ab | 0.137 ± 0.016 ab | 0.147 ± 0.019 a | 0.146 ± 0.011 a | 0.141 ± 0.018 ab | NS | * | * |
| Thymus, g/100 g BW | 0.147 ± 0.014 c | 0.201 ± 0.019 bc | 0.244 ± 0.019 abc | 0.314 ± 0.033 a | 0.29 ± 0.047 ab | 0.284 ± 0.054 ab | NS | * | ** |
| Spleen, g/100 g BW | 0.142 ± 0.016 a | 0.086 ± 0.018 b | 0.106 ± 0.008 ab | 0.122 ± 0.016 ab | 0.127 ± 0.006 a | 0.129 ± 0.005 a | * | NS | * |
| Liver, g/100 g BW | 1.987 ± 0.16 | 1.854 ± 0.10 | 2.118 ± 0.15 | 1.947 ± 0.23 | 1.959 ± 0.15 | 1.896 ± 0.04 | NS | NS | NS |
| Abdominal fat, g/100 g BW | 1.11 ± 0.11 | 0.688 ± 0.14 | 0.622 ± 0.07 | 0.711 ± 0.07 | 0.652 ± 0.05 | 0.699 ± 0.04 | NS | NS | NS |
Enz: enzyme; CSM: corn silk meal. Values are expressed as the means ± standard error. Means within a row not sharing a common superscript significantly differ from each other. NS, not significant (p > 0.05); * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01.