Table 4.
Effect of selenium-supplemented diets on the slaughter characteristics of growing naked neck chicks.1
| Parameters | Treatments |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Se | Inorganic Se | Control | P value | |
| CY | 63.6 | 62.3 | 62.5 | 0.050 |
| BY | 23.8a | 21.6b | 22.6ab | 0.004 |
| TY | 22.2a | 20.1b | 21.5ab | 0.0188 |
| DW | 15.9 | 15.7 | 16.1 | 0.0018 |
| LW | 3.1 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 0.0013 |
| GW | 3.0 | 3.2 | 2.99 | 0.0004 |
| HW | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.005 |
| WW | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 0.0172 |
Abbreviations: BY, breast yield; CY, carcass yield; DW, drumstick weight; GW, gizzard weight; HW, heart weight; LW, liver weight; TY, thigh yield; WW, wing weight.
a,b
The treatment means in a column without any shared superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).
1
Data represent the means of 5 replicates (n = 5), each with 15 birds.