Table 4.
Items | Treatments | SEM | P-Value | ||
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Control | CHB | CHBE | |||
Body weight, g | |||||
30 days of age | 668 | 652 | 689 | 16 | 0.649 |
58 days of age | 1277b | 1406a | 1469a | 29 | 0.015 |
86 days of age | 1946b | 2166a | 2273a | 39 | 0.001 |
Daily weight gain, g | |||||
30–58 days of age | 21.75b | 26.93a | 27.86a | 2.56 | 0.008 |
58–86 days of age | 23.89b | 27.14a | 28.71a | 2.46 | 0.019 |
30–86 days of age | 22.82b | 27.04a | 28.29a | 2.67 | 0.001 |
Daily feed intake, g | |||||
30–58 days of age | 76.93 | 79.75 | 80.14 | 4.16 | 0.704 |
58–86 days of age | 100.71 | 105.64 | 106.68 | 3.89 | 0.182 |
30–86 days of age | 88.82 | 92.70 | 93.41 | 6.44 | 0.222 |
Feed conversion ratio | |||||
30–58 days of age | 3.66a | 2.98b | 2.92b | 0.13 | 0.026 |
58–86 days of age | 4.21a | 3.89b | 3.72b | 0.12 | 0.023 |
30–86 days of age | 3.82a | 3.45b | 3.32b | 0.08 | 0.004 |
SEM: Standard error of the means (n = 20); CHB: Control diet substituted with 25% hydroponic barley; CHBE: Control diet substituted with 25% hydroponic barley with 0.5 g/kg enzymes.
a,bMeans within the same row bearing different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).