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. 2022 Jul 7;12(14):1742. doi: 10.3390/ani12141742

Table 4.

Carcass yield and relative organ weights of broiler chickens fed a reduced nPP diet supplemented with phytase, probiotic, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and fumaric acid at 35 days of age.

Treatments 1 Carcass Traits Immune Organs
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.