. 2023 Jan 18;13:943. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-27911-x

Table 4.

Effects of hydroponic barley with or without enzymes on growth performance of growing rabbits.

Items	Treatments			SEM	P-Value
Items	Control	CHB	CHBE	SEM	P-Value
Body weight, g
30 days of age	668	652	689	16	0.649
58 days of age	1277^b	1406^a	1469^a	29	0.015
86 days of age	1946^b	2166^a	2273^a	39	0.001
Daily weight gain, g
30–58 days of age	21.75^b	26.93^a	27.86^a	2.56	0.008
58–86 days of age	23.89^b	27.14^a	28.71^a	2.46	0.019
30–86 days of age	22.82^b	27.04^a	28.29^a	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	3.66^a	2.98^b	2.92^b	0.13	0.026
58–86 days of age	4.21^a	3.89^b	3.72^b	0.12	0.023
30–86 days of age	3.82^a	3.45^b	3.32^b	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).