. 2021 Aug 19;100(11):101442. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2021.101442

Table 7.

Meat quality of thigh muscle of broilers reared with different stocking densities (n = 312/breed).

	Arbor acres breed					Ross-308 breed
Parameters	SD₁	SD₂	SD₃	SEM	P-value	SD₁	SD₂	SD₃	SEM	P-value
pH_u	6.31^a	6.26^a	6.16^b	0.02	0.000	6.31^a	6.23^a	6.09^b	0.01	0.000
Cooking loss	19.37^b	19.06^b	21.47^a	0.13	0.000	19.53^b	19.85^b	21.94^a	0.17	0.000
Drip loss	10.51^b	10.37^b	11.45^a	0.08	0.000	10.80^b	11.05^b	12.17^a	0.11	0.000
Total bacterial count (Log CFU/g)^*	4.67^b	4.72^b	5.30^a	0.04	0.000	4.59^b	4.59^b	5.30^a	0.05	0.000
Enterobacteriaceae (Log CFU/g)^*	3.10^b	3.10^b	3.36^a	0.03	0.000	3.09^b	3.10^b	3.65^a	0.04	0.000
Coliforms bacteria (Log CFU/g)^*	2.63^b	2.45^b	3.31^a	0.04	0.000	2.82^b	2.83^b	3.20^a	0.03	0.000

SD₁: stocking density of 14 birds/m²; SD₂: stocking density of 18 birds/m²; SD₃: stocking density of 20 birds/m².

^⁎

Results were of Log transformed data (n = 156/breed).

^a,b,c

Means within the same row with different superscripts letter was differ significantly.