Table 7.

Effect of diet supplemented with 30 g/kg of dried fruit pomace on relative weight of lymphatic organs (%) (n = 10 per group).

		Group1
Item2	Week of rearing	CO	CH	BC	RA	Pooled SEM	P-value
Spleen	55	0.1005	0.0913	0.0769	0.0825	0.010	0.442
Bursa of Fabricius		0.0114	0.0083	0.0101	0.0085	0.001	0.545
Thymus		0.0647	0.0708	0.0609	0.0727	0.010	0.947
Spleen	62	0.0887a	0.1237b	0.1200b	0.0974a,b	0.010	0.018
Bursa of Fabricius		0.0357	0.0104	0.0115	0.02926	0.013	0.531
Thymus		0.0674	0.0865	0.0686	0.0856	0.007	0.194

¹CO, control group - the birds’ feeds were a standard feed mixture for laying hens; CH, the birds’ feeds were supplemented with 30 g/kg of dried pomace of black chokeberry; BC, the birds’ feeds were supplemented with 30 g/kg of dried pomace of black currant; RA, the birds’ feeds were supplemented with 30 g/kg dried pomace of raspberry

²The lymphatic organs were calculated as percentage of total body weight.

Abbreviation: SEM, the pooled standard error of the mean.

^a,bMeans within a row with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05).