Table 5.

Effect of feeding diets including three different faba bean cultivars of two quality levels and a wheat-SBM control diet on growth phase and overall trial (day 0 to 40) growth performance of broilers¹

		Cultivar				Quality			P-value
	Control	Snowbird	Snowdrop	Fabelle	SEM	High	Low	SEM	Cultivar	Quality	C × Q2	Faba bean vs. control3
BW, g
d 0	41.44	41.17	41.12	40.91	0.37	41.29	40.84	0.33	0.7813	0.1762	0.8173	0.3152
d 11	314.03	300.59	303.66	299.74	8.36	300.64	302.02	8.03	0.7680	0.7671	0.3358	0.0710
d 24	1262.87	1219.29	1239.22	1249.57	21.51	1229.76	1242.29	20.30	0.2222	0.3837	0.2941	0.1737
d 40	2991.69	2844.36	2892.05	2899.43	31.11	2880.30	2876.92	25.55	0.3968	0.9246	0.2098	0.0117
ADG, g/d
Starter3	23.55	22.63	22.67	22.78	0.53	22.51	22.88	0.49	0.9601	0.3890	0.2768	0.1334
Grower4	72.99	70.19a	71.73a,b	72.79b	1.03	71.13	72.01	0.94	0.0491	0.3003	0.1360	0.1954
Finisher5	111.16	103.55	105.36	105.92	1.72	104.88	105.01	1.40	0.6000	0.9484	0.6599	0.0108
Overall	72.86	68.98	70.40	71.05	0.94	69.78	70.51	0.78	0.2691	0.4947	0.3651	0.0316
ADFI, g/d
Starter	27.11	26.94	27.21	27.32	0.43	27.13	27.18	0.37	0.7636	0.9020	0.2095	0.8816
Grower	97.49	95.85	96.72	97.09	1.56	97.32	95.79	1.45	0.6498	0.1774	0.0536	0.5385
Finisher	190.02	188.97	189.89	188.20	2.55	190.31	187.73	2.12	0.8878	0.3672	0.0192	0.7835
Overall	111.79	111.06	112.21	111.84	1.39	112.15	111.26	1.16	0.8247	0.5672	0.0151	0.9364
G:F, g/g
Starter	0.869	0.839	0.833	0.829	0.010	0.830	0.838	0.009	0.6694	0.3746	0.9753	0.0046
Grower	0.749	0.733a	0.742a,b	0.750b	0.006	0.731	0.752	0.005	0.0477	0.0004	0.2478	0.3198
Finisher	0.586	0.548	0.555	0.563	0.006	0.551	0.560	0.005	0.2134	0.1890	0.0950	0.0010
Overall	0.652	0.621	0.628	0.635	0.004	0.622	0.634	0.003	0.0694	0.0168	0.0300	0.0004

^a–b Means within a row without a common superscript differ (P < 0.050).

¹Least-square means based on nine pens of 11 or 12 broilers each per faba bean cultivar ×quality level.

²P-value for the interaction between faba bean cultivar and quality level.

³P-value for the contrast comparing feeding all six faba bean diets to control.

³d 0 to 11.

⁴d 12 to 24.

⁵d 25 to 40.