. 2022 Jul 28;12(15):1930. doi: 10.3390/ani12151930

Table 5.

Effect of Tribulus Terrestris (TT) supplementation on absolute and relative weight of liver and kidney in broiler chickens.

Variables	Treatments ¹			SEM ²	p-Value
Variables	Control	T1	T2	SEM ²	p-Value
At14 days of age
Body weight (g)	438.75^a	429.88 ^a	369.38 ^b	15.47	0.009
Liver (g)	12.74	10.81	9.86	0.89	0.090
Liver (%)	2.94	2.50	2.67	0.21	0.363
Kidney (g)	2.26	2.90	2.60	0.25	0.238
Kidney (%)	0.528	0.672	0.710	0.06	0.149
At 35 days of age
Body weight (g)	1672.63	1728.00	1693.75	21.66	0.238
Liver (g)	35.68	38.33	35.72	1.25	0.250
Liver (%)	2.13	2.21	2.11	0.09	0.672
Kidney (g)	2.32	2.40	1.99	0.19	0.319
Kidney (%)	0.14	0.13	0.11	0.01	0.391

^a,b Means values within a row for each variable with clarification of the significant difference in the form of superscripts (p < 0.05). ¹ Treatments: control, birds fed basal diet; T1, basal diet with 0.75 g Tribulus Terrestris/kg diet; T2, basal diet with 1.5 g Tribulus Terrestris/kg diet. ² SEM = standard error of means for treatment effect.