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. 2019 Dec 17;98(12):6797–6807. doi: 10.3382/ps/pez409

Table 3.

Effects of experimental diets on growth performance in broiler chickens.¹

	Treatments²
Item	CON	MOS	FSBM	MIX	SEM	P-value
Body weight gain, g
d 1 to 10	225.71	228.35	231.60	230.84	4.574	0.797
d 11 to 24	878.50^c	897.22^b	908.01^b	933.20^a	5.447	<0.001
d 25 to 42	1551.45^c	1574.64^b,c	1597.25^b	1625.58^a	8.029	<0.001
d 1 to 42	2655.67^c	2700.22^b,c	2736.87^b	2789.62^a	16.671	0.001
Feed intake, g
d 1 to 10	275.85	283.61	283.50	279.45	5.935	0.760
d 11 to 24	1388.23	1394.58	1400.25	1419.10	11.907	0.318
d 25 to 42	2907.68	2915.84	2899.07	2917.55	20.136	0.910
d 1 to 42	4571.76	4594.03	4582.82	4616.10	25.153	0.643
Feed conversion ratio
d 1 to 10	1.22	1.24	1.22	1.21	0.010	0.235
d 11 to 24	1.57^a	1.55^a,b	1.54^a,b	1.52^b	0.013	0.040
d 25 to 42	1.87^a	1.85^a	1.82^b	1.79^b	0.011	0.002
d 1 to 42	1.72^a	1.70^a,b	1.67^b,c	1.65^c	0.009	0.003
Mortality (%; d 1 to 42)	2.50	1.67	2.50	0.83	0.715	0.942
Dressing percentage	71.47	71.95	72.04	72.60	0.390	0.507
Abdominal fat (%)	1.56^a	1.48^a	1.19^b	1.22^b	0.065	0.001

^{^a–c}

Means with different superscripts in each row are statistically different (P < 0.05).

^¹

Data represent means of 6 replicates per treatment.

^²

CON = control; MOS = mannan-oligosaccharides; FSBM = fermented soybean meal; MIX = MOS + FSBM.