Table 7.

Effect of feeding diets including three different faba bean cultivars of two quality levels and a wheat-soybean meal control diet on carcass traits and yield of saleable cuts of broilers¹

		Cultivar				Quality			P-value
	Control	Snowbird	Snowdrop	Fabelle	SEM	High	Low	SEM	Cultivar	Quality	C × Q2	Faba bean vs. control3
Antemortem weight, kg	2.86	2.71	2.76	2.77	0.04	2.74	2.76	0.03	0.3370	0.7458	0.3269	0.0150
Carcass weight, kg	2.12	2.03	2.07	2.05	0.03	2.04	2.06	0.03	0.5201	0.5525	0.5328	0.0414
Dressing, %	74.77	74.26	74.12	74.25	0.19	74.14	74.28	0.18	0.5728	0.2427	0.7221	0.0014
Carcass component yield, % of chilled carcass
Breast major	29.75	29.56	29.59	30.09	0.26	29.75	29.74	0.21	0.2821	0.9628	0.1043	0.9928
Breast minor	5.70	5.90	5.86	5.92	0.06	6.00	5.79	0.05	0.7731	0.0028	0.6255	0.0233
Breast total	35.51	35.46	35.46	36.02	0.27	35.76	35.53	0.22	0.2592	0.4812	0.1804	0.7168
Thighs	14.99	15.51a	15.43a	14.94b	0.18	15.29	15.31	0.16	0.0189	0.9310	0.8665	0.1590
Drumsticks	12.73	13.28	13.18	13.02	0.10	13.18	13.15	0.09	0.2123	0.8125	0.4995	0.0071
Wings	10.04	10.08	10.12	10.11	0.07	10.13	10.08	0.06	0.9511	0.5547	0.0842	0.5416
Trim	26.86	25.55	25.91	25.92	0.23	25.62	25.96	0.19	0.4151	0.1925	0.5623	0.0023

^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.