Table 3.

Carcass traits and relative organs of growing Japanese quail as affected by licorice powder.

	Licorice levels (mg/kg diet)						P value2
Items	0	250	500	750	1000	SEM1	Linear	Quadratic
Carcass %	75.57	76.89	77.7	72.59	74.57	1.507	0.2423	0.4620
Liver %	2.88	1.95	2.11	2.86	3.19	0.318	0.1795	0.0336
Gizzard %	2.63	2.51	2.24	2.27	2.38	0.151	0.1949	0.2595
Heart %	1.10	1.05	1.06	0.99	0.93	0.137	0.3915	0.8597
Giblets %	6.61	5.51	5.41	6.12	6.50	0.330	0.7311	0.0177
Dressing %	82.18	82.41	83.11	78.70	81.07	1.452	0.2677	0.8911

¹Standard error means.

²Linear and quadratic effects.