. 2022 Jan 25;59(1):16–37. doi: 10.2141/jpsa.0210042

Table 7. Effects of selected essential oils on carcass characteristics.

EO	dietary dose %*	Hot dressing	Breast	Thigh	Wing	Gizzard	Liver	Heart	Abdominal fat	Spleen	Bursa	Age	Reference
EO	dietary dose %*	% of slaughter body weight										Age	Reference
AjEO	0 (control) PC¹ 0.04	65.5 66.0 66.6	22.2 21.0 22.4	8.73 8.99 9.65	5.30 5.61 5.79	2.27 2.24 2.22	1.71 1.78 1.77	0.48 0.48 0.48	1.71 2.11 2.15	0.11^ab 0.13^a 0.10^b	0.11 0.08 0.07	0–39	Chowdhury et al., 2018a b
AnEO	0 (control) PC⁴ 0.015 0.025 0.040	67.5^c 68.8^b 68.7^b 68.8^b 69.1^a	24.6^c 25.8^b 25.0^b 25.5^b 26.5^a	15.0^c 15.8^b 15.8^b 15.9^b 16.8^a	NA							0–42	Eltazi, 2014
AjEO	dietary dose %^*				% of live body weight
AjEO	0 (control) PC² 0.015 0.025 0.035	63.8 65.3 66.0 64.6 64.0	19.9 21.8 21.2 21.4 20.0	17.4 18.1 18.2 17.6 17.8	NA	1.95 1.86 1.86 1.88 1.89	2.61 2.57 2.61 2.47 2.44	0.65 0.59 0.58 0.6 0.69	1.78 1.68 1.61 1.45 1.52	0.11 0.13 0.15 0.11 0.1	0.21 0.24 0.20 0.18 0.22	0–42	Falaki et al., 2016
AnEO	0 (control) PC³ 0.01 0.02 0.04	73.7^ab 72.9^b 74.5^ab 73.1^ab 74.6^a	28.5 29.0 28.8 28.7 29.5	22.2 21.31 21.36 21.11 21.46	10.8^ab 10.7^ab 11.3^a 10.6^ab 9.8^b	2.06^b 2.12^bc 2.48^ac 2.36^abc 2.53^a	2.4^ab 2.27^b 2.43^ab 2.42^ab 2.67^a	0.51 0.51 0.49 0.47 0.41	2.34 2.45 2.44 2.62 2.75	0.13 0.14 0.14 0.13 0.12	NA	0–40	Simsek et al., 2007

PC=positive control

All values are in percentage except PC.

Bacitracin methylene disalicylate, 500 mg/kg

Neomycin sulfate, 1000 mg/kg

Virginiamycin, 200 mg/kg

⁴

Avilamycin, 1000 mg/kg

^a–c

Mean values sharing a common superscript letter are not statistically different at P<0.05.