Table 4.
Items | Fumaric acid level (g/kg diet) |
SEM | P value | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | |||
Carcass % | 77.28 | 76.28 | 76.03 | 79.09 | 75.52 | 0.768 | 0.0952 |
Liver % | 2.18b | 2.67ab | 3.17a | 2.60ab | 2.64ab | 0.159 | 0.0366 |
Gizzard % | 1.98 | 2.41 | 2.44 | 2.07 | 2.69 | 0.178 | 0.1407 |
Heart % | 0.86 | 0.81 | 0.95 | 1.05 | 0.73 | 0.084 | 0.1800 |
Giblets % | 5.02 | 5.89 | 6.56 | 5.72 | 6.06 | 0.296 | 0.0805 |
Dressing % | 82.30 | 82.16 | 82.59 | 84.8 | 81.58 | 0.692 | 0.0725 |
Caecal content pH | 6.92a | 6.82a | 6.33bc | 6.23c | 6.46b | 0.055 | <0.0001 |
Means within the same row with different common superscripts differ significantly.