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. 2021 Jul 15;7(5):1881–1889. doi: 10.1002/vms3.573

TABLE 3.

Effects of dietary graded levels of Enteromorpha polysaccharides (EP) on relative organ weight (%) of 35 days broilers

Dietary EP levels (mg/kg) Proventriculus, % Gizzard, % Pancreas, % Heart, % Liver, % Spleen, % Thymus, % Bursa of Fabricius, %
0 0.419 1.772 0.253 0.392 2.995 0.16 0.389 0.179a
1000 0.398 1.662 0.258 0.396 2.775 0.188 0.485 0.319b
2500 0.392 1.726 0.245 0.372 2.631 0.185 0.515 0.243ab
4000 0.400 1.612 0.231 0.340 2.67 0.139 0.454 0.249ab
5500 0.420 1.63 0.266 0.385 2.856 0.168 0.581 0.219ab
7000 0.445 1.687 0.244 0.373 2.713 0.212 0.498 0.220ab
SEM1 0.027 0.109 0.02 0.041 0.196 0.033 0.068 0.043ab
Contrast p‐value
Linear 0.622 0.403 0.390 0.171 0.278 0.652 0.469 0.486
Quadratic 0.603 0.986 0.643 0.415 0.349 0.271 0.258 0.130
Cubic 0.994 0.477 0.853 0.821 0.860 0.942 0.931 0.135
1

SEM, standard errors of mean.