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Table 5.

Ileal viscosity for the cage-wise pooled ileal digesta samples of broilers in digestibility cages at d 11, 22 and 36 fed the 7 experimental diets.

Variable	Ileal viscosity, cP
Variable	d 11	d 22	d 36
Treatment groups¹
CTRL	3.68	3.99	2.88
Bel10	3.94	3.78	3.16
Bel100	2.48^∗	2.44^∗∗	2.79
Bel1000	2.55	2.33^∗∗	1.95^∗∗
Eco10	2.60	2.78^∗∗	2.81
Eco100	2.43	2.29^∗∗	2.00^∗
Eco1000	2.19^∗∗	2.25^∗∗	1.80^∗∗
Pooled SEM	0.96	0.74	0.62
Main effects
Age
d 11	2.72 ± 0.96
d 22	2.64 ± 0.74
d 36	2.39 ± 0.62
Enzyme
Bel	2.82 ± 0.39^a
Eco	2.33 ± 0.0.26^b
Dose, mg/kg
10	3.21 ± 0.0.46^a
100	2.39 ± 0.28^b
1,000	2.18 ± 0.29^b
PANOVA
Age	0.15
Enzyme	<0.001
Dose	<0.001
Age × Enzyme	0.78
Age × Dose	0.75
Dose × Enzyme	0.06

SEM = standard error of the mean.

^∗^,^∗∗ indicate treatment means which differ significantly at P ≤ 0.10 and P < 0.05, respectively from the control mean; analysed according to the posthoc Dunnett's test.

^a,b Means having different superscripts in a particular column for the main effect are significantly different; analysed according to the posthoc Tukey's HSD test (P < 0.05). Means are represented as means ± SEM.

CTRL, control diet; Bel, Belfeed supplemented diet; Eco, Econase supplemented diet. Reported values are means from 5 replicates from each dietary treatment group (n = 5).