. 2019 Dec 17;98(12):6611–6617. doi: 10.3382/ps/pez505

Table 3.

Effects of stocking density on tibial parameters and breast muscle yield of broilers.¹

Items	LSD	MSD	HSD	P-value
Length (mm)	108.37^a±0.83	109.00^a±0.95	103.40^b±0.56	<0.01
Width (mm)	13.93^a,^b±1.11	15.61^a±1.38	12.86^b±0.39	0.01
Weight (g)	22.75^a±0.79	23.83^a±3.30	19.28^b±1.08	0.02
Breast muscle yield (%)	29.91^a±2.47	30.60^a±2.89	25.41^b±0.60	0.05

LSD, low stocking density (6.25 birds/m²); MSD, medium stocking density (12.50 birds/m²); HSD, high stocking density (18.75 birds/m²).

^{^a,b}

Means within a column with different superscripts are different at P ≤ 0.05.

^¹

All means reported as means ± SD (n = 12).