Figure 5.

The effect of treatment on body mass, plasma carotenoids, plasma triglycerides, and coccidian infection intensity. (a) Treatment did not affect the body mass of birds. (b) Treatment had an effect on plasma carotenoids—carotenoids were significantly higher in the toltrazuril group pre-treatment, but after medication, there were no differences between the groups. (c) Treatment did not affect plasma triglycerides. (d) Medication with TOLTRA significantly reduced the intensity of coccidian infection, while birds medicated with metronidazole (METRO) did not differ from the control group (modification of a previously published figure by R. Meitern and co-authors³⁴ (https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2575, licensed under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The effects were examined with repeated measures ANOVA (Table 1). Whiskers denote mean ± s.e.m.