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Table 4.

Experimental treatment and sex as main effects on Eimeria oocyst counts in the caecal and ileal contents on d 16.¹

Item	Caecal content –E. Maxima	Caecal content –E. Acervulina	Ileal content–E. Maxima	Ileal content–total counts	Ileal content–C. perfringens²	Caecal content–C. perfringens²
Treatment
UC	0^d	0^c	0^b	0^b	3.94^c	0.27^c
CC	46,094^a	25,181^a	4,683^a	10,999^a	9.16^a	9.62^a
PE	19,289^b	11,527^b	6,679^a	7,567^a	8.94^ab	9.29^a
AM	1,531^cd	265^c	10,914^a	11,937^a	4.99^c	2.89^b
FAP	3,200^c	349^c	9,571^a	10,214^a	5.19^c	3.87^b
HAP	20,238^b	5,782^b	8,379^a	9,453^a	7.73^b	8.80^a
SEM	4,849	2,584	1,547	1,984	0.46	0.58
Sex
Male	10,217^b	5,403	6,737	7,778	6.50	5.44
Female	19,901^a	8,965	6,732	8,945	6.81	6.14
SEM	2,800	1,492	893	1,145	0.27	0.33
P-value
Experimental treatment	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Sex	0.038	0.185	0.507	0.507	0.412	0.136
Experimental treatment × Sex	0.142	0.172	0.924	0.924	0.557	0.538

^{a – d} Values in a row with no common superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05). Mean values are based on 4 birds per replicate and 8 replicates per treatment.

UC, unchallenged control; CC, challenged control; PE, plant extract; AM, antimicrobial (narasin and nicarbazin; 50 ppm each active compound); FAP, full dose of AM plus PE; HAP, half dose of AM plus PE.

The microbiota results in detail have been reported in a previous paper (Kumar et al., 2021).