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Table 2.

Effect of NE challenged on WG, FI, FCR of birds (day 14 to 35), and duodenum morphology and jejunum lesion scores on day 16.

Treatments	Performance			Histology, μm			Lesion score¹
Treatments	WG, g/bird	FI, g/bird	FCR	VH	CD	VH-to-CD ratio	Lesion score¹
Non-challenged	1,708^a	2,911	1.710^b	1,420^a	179	7.96^a	0.00^b
NE challenged	1,437^b	2,762	1.899^a	1,011^b	193	5.27^b	0.50^a
P-value	0.005	0.239	0.045	0.021	0.457	0.005	0.011

NE = necrotic enteritis, WG = weight gain; FI = feed intake; FCR = feed conversion ratio, VH = villus height, CD = crypt depth.

^{a, b} Means sharing the same superscripts are not significantly different from each other at P < 0.05.

Jejunum lesion score day 16.