Table 4.
Treatments 1 | Carcass Traits | Immune Organs | |||||
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Dressing, % | Liver, % | Gizzard, % | Heart, % | Thymus, % | Spleen, % | Bursa of Fabricius, % | |
PC | 77.72 ab | 1.98 b | 1.54 b | 0.42 | 0.101 | 0.084 c | 0.084 c |
NC | 75.13 bc | 1.95 b | 1.57 ab | 0.42 | 0.102 | 0.065 d | 0.069 d |
PHY | 79.41 a | 1.92 b | 1.45 b | 0.44 | 0.099 | 0.088 bc | 0.091 b |
PRO | 79.50 a | 1.92 b | 1.59 ab | 0.43 | 0.098 | 0.111 a | 0.083 c |
SC | 76.91 ab | 2.01 ab | 1.48 b | 0.40 | 0.101 | 0.109 a | 0.098 a |
FA | 73.38 c | 2.07 a | 1.68 a | 0.42 | 0.101 | 0.099 ab | 0.101 a |
SEM | 1.58 | 0.041 | 0.069 | 0.019 | 0.002 | 0.007 | 0.002 |
p-value | 0.002 | 0.008 | 0.04 | 0.72 | 0.83 | ˂0.001 | ˂0.001 |
Contrast probability vs. NC | |||||||
PC | 0.11 | 0.56 | 0.68 | 0.90 | 0.78 | 0.01 | ˂0.001 |
PHY | 0.01 | 0.36 | 0.11 | 0.65 | 0.63 | 0.002 | ˂0.001 |
PRO | 0.004 | 0.46 | 0.75 | 0.45 | 0.44 | ˂0.001 | ˂0.001 |
SC | 0.27 | 0.23 | 0.22 | 0.35 | 0.99 | ˂0.001 | ˂0.001 |
FA | 0.28 | 0.008 | 0.11 | 0.78 | 0.91 | ˂0.001 | ˂0.001 |
a–d Means with no common letters within the same column varied significantly at p < 0.05. 1 Treatments’ abbreviations see Table 2.