. 2022 Apr 6;101(7):101905. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2022.101905

Table 3.

Effects of dietary supplementation of ANT, APS, and GPS on growth performance in broilers (n = 6).

	Treatments
Items	CON	ANT	APS	GPS	SEM	P-value
BW, g
1 d	46.18	46.27	46.63	46.07	0.17	0.679
21 d	841.67	866.27	853.42	874.12	5.43	0.155
42 d	2,488.77^b	2,578.15^a	2,580.35^a	2,567.63^a	13.21	0.029
ADG, (g/d)
1–21 d	37.88	39.05	38.42	39.43	0.26	0.145
22–42 d	78.43	81.52	82.23	80.64	0.54	0.060
1–42 d	58.16^b	60.28^a	60.33^a	60.04^a	0.31	0.030
ADFI, g
1–21 d	48.10	50.19	47.17	47.29	0.71	0.428
22–42 d	142.08	138.68	141.80	139.14	1.52	0.821
1–42 d	95.09	94.43	94.48	93.22	0.69	0.829
FCR
1–21 d	1.27	1.29	1.23	1.20	0.02	0.565
22–42d	1.81	1.70	1.72	1.73	0.02	0.216
1–42 d	1.64^a	1.57^b	1.57^b	1.55^b	0.01	0.014

^ab

Means within a row with no common superscripts differ (P < 0.05).

Abbreviations: ADG, average daily gain; ADFI, average daily feed intake; ANT, basal diet supplemented with 500 mg/kg terramycin calcium; APS, basal diet supplemented with 300 mg/kg Astragalus membranaceus polysaccharides; BW, body weight; CON, control group with basal diet; FCR, feed conversion ratio; GPS, basal diet supplemented with 150 mg/kg Glycyrrhiza uralensis polysaccharides; SEM, pooled standard error of the mean.