. 2020 Nov 3;34(6):1070–1077. doi: 10.5713/ajas.20.0560

Table 3.

Effect of the length of fasting on meat quality of broilers

Indexes	Raising pattern	Length of fasting (h)¹⁾					Effect²⁾

		0	4	6	8	10	Pattern	Length	Pattern×length
pH₁	Floor-feed	6.60^a±0.03	6.61^a±0.06	6.55^a±0.01	6.53^ab±0.03	6.39^b±0.03	-	*	-
pH₁	Scatter-feed	6.74^a±0.04	6.88^a±0.03	6.54^b±0.01	6.62^ab±0.03	6.52^b±0.04
pH₂	Floor-feed	6.20±0.02	6.20±0.02	6.23±0.02	6.27±0.01	6.20±0.01	-	-	-
pH₂	Scatter-feed	6.25±0.01	6.34±0.01	5.27±0.19	6.28±0.02	6.31±0.02
Drip loss (%)	Floor-feed	3.82±0.43	2.56±0.06	2.56±0.10	5.65±0.49	5.78±0.34	-	*	-
Drip loss (%)	Scatter-feed	3.52^b±0.33	2.26^b±0.13	2.53^b±0.10	4.69^ab±0.31	7.32^a±0.60
Shearing force (N)	Floor-feed	2.29±0.17	1.44±0.10	2.30±0.20	1.80±0.15	2.26±0.11	-	-	-
Shearing force (N)	Scatter-feed	1.95±0.17	1.86±0.16	2.05±0.15	2.10±0.12	1.96±0.18
L*	Floor-feed	50.51^b ^x±0.20	48.58^b±0.40	54.36^a±0.42	54.85^a±0.39	54.20^a±0.36	*	*	-
L*	Scatter-feed	46.48^b ^y±0.15	49.18^ab±0.51	51.68^a±0.33	52.00^a±0.52	52.59^a±0.18
a*	Floor-feed	1.26±0.06	1.15±0.15	1.38±0.14	1.47±0.18	1.34±0.12	-	-	-
a*	Scatter-feed	1.05±0.10	1.19±0.14	1.11±0.12	1.02±009	1.15±0.06
b*	Floor-feed	12.61±0.43	12.99±0.40	14.01±0.40	10.88±0.41	10.39±0.24	-	-	-
b*	Scatter-feed	12.35±0.22	13.08±0.40	13.26±0.28	11.21±0.44	12.47±0.34

¹⁾

The data are presented as means±standard error of the mean.

²⁾

- means p>0.05, * means p<0.05.

^a,b

Different superscripts in a row indicate significant difference at p<0.05.

^x,y

Different superscripts in a column indicate significant difference at p<0.05.