Table 4.
Carcass characteristics of broilers fed control and experimental diets.
| Treatments | Traits (relative weight %) |
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| Slaughter yield | Eviscerated carcass | Breast | Legs | Liver | heart | Intestine | Gizzard | Abdominal fat | |
| Control | 57.1 ± 5.6a | 82.5 ± 2.0 | 26.8 ± 0.7A | 24.1 ± 1.0 | 2.2 ± 0.4 | 0.6 ± 0.1 | 5.9 ± 0.8 | 2.0 ± 0.3 | 2.6 ± 0.7 |
| Experimental | 64.3 ± 4.3b | 85 ± 3.8 | 34.2 ± 0.7B | 24.2 ± 1.3 | 2.1 ± 0.2 | 0.5 ± 0.06 | 6.2 ± 0.6 | 2.0 ± 0.3 | 1.1 ± 0.7 |
Data are represented as means ± standard error of mean.
Mean values in the same column with different letters are significantly different at P < 0.05 by the mean of t test.