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

Table 4.

Effect of the length of fasting on indexes on carcass contamination of broilers

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

		0	4	6	8	10	Pattern	Length	Pattern×length
Contamination propensity (g)	Floor-feed	2.00^a±0.14	1.60^ab±0.13	1.00^b±0.07	0.80^bc±0.15	0.40^c±0.08	-	*	-
Contamination propensity (g)	Scatter-feed	2.20^a±0.18	1.80^ab±0.29	0.80^b±0.15	0.80^b±0.12	0.20^c±0.06
Proventriculus contents (g)	Floor-feed	0.95±0.11	0.76±0.03	0.82±0.03	0.92±0.18	1.04±0.11	-	-	-
Proventriculus contents (g)	Scatter-feed	0.72±0.10	0.79±0.02	0.85±0.06	0.74±0.02	1.13±0.16
Gizzard contents (g)	Floor-feed	10.98^a ^y±1.22	10.92^a±0.63	6.87^ab±0.97	6.86^ab ^y±0.72	3.50^b ^y±0.68	*	*	-
Gizzard contents (g)	Scatter-feed	16.89^a ^x±0.80	10.65^ab±0.23	8.92^b±1.01	13.51^ab ^x±2.29	7.39^b ^x±0.50
Whole intestine contents (g)	Floor-feed	32.25^a±0.59	18.04^b±0.39	15.12^bc±1.28	13.66^bc±0.49	7.61^c ^y±0.51	*	*	-
Whole intestine contents (g)	Scatter-feed	29.81^a±1.07	23.28^ab±0.46	22.60^ab±0.64	16.26^b±0.22	16.83^b ^x±0.79

¹⁾

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

²⁾

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

^a–c

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.