. 2022 Apr 8;9:878018. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.878018

Table 4.

Growth performance (experiment 2).

Item	Group
	Control	Model	Rg3-Pre	Rg3-Post
DWG (g/bird per day)
2 weeks	13.21 ± 0.42	13.34 ± 0.11	12.36 ± 0.55	13.09 ± 0.42
3 weeks	20.31 ± 0.23^a	18.65 ± 0.24^b	19.65 ± 1.17^ab	19.30 ± 0.75^ab
4 weeks	28.92 ± 0.75	28.28 ± 0.91	28.96 ± 1.45	28.27 ± 2.28
5 weeks	29.44 ± 1.61	26.85 ± 1.46	27.96 ± 2.06	30.13 ± 1.75
DFI (g/bird per day)
2 weeks	25.70 ± 0.54	26.26 ± 0.45	25.65 ± 0.31	25.62 ± 0.40
3 weeks	43.18 ± 0.44^a	36.45 ± 0.04^d	40.58 ± 0.37^b	40.07 ± 0.56^bc
4 weeks	55.84 ± 1.48	52.79 ± 2.26	54.95 ± 0.59	53.53 ± 1.46
5 weeks	78.86 ± 2.30	71.26 ± 2.46	75.05 ± 2.18	74.60 ± 1.57
FCR
2 weeks	1.95 ± 0.06	1.97 ± 0.03	2.09 ± 0.11	1.96 ± 0.07
3 weeks	2.13 ± 0.04	2.06 ± 0.08	2.07 ± 0.08	2.14 ± 0.09
4 weeks	1.98 ± 0.09	1.92 ± 0.05	1.91 ± 0.08	1.94 ± 0.15
5 weeks	2.70 ± 0.19	2.82 ± 0.19	2.75 ± 0.26	2.50 ± 0.18

DWG, average daily weight gain; DFI, daily feed intake; FCR, feed conversion ratio. Values were expressed as means ± SE. The different superscript letters represent statistically different.