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Table 2.

The richness and diversity of caecal microbiome during different stages of pullets for the first 16 weeks.

Item	Weeks				SEM	P-value
Item	3	6	12	16	SEM	P-value
Shannon	5.73^b	5.84^b	6.53^a	6.45^a	0.121	0.020
Simpson	0.94^b	0.94^b	0.97^a	0.96^a	0.004	0.037
Chao1	526.19^b	494.90^b	608.82^a	604.67^a	12.765	0.035
ACE	526.30^b	498.36^b	616.06^a	608.47^a	11.492	0.038

^{a, b} Means within a row with different letters are significantly different (P < 0.05).