Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

Table 5 Mineral contents in ileal and cecal digesta at day 34 of the birds fed with the experimental diets (hydroxychloride trace minerals, HTM and sulphate trace minerals, STM) in high and low dosages

From: Hydroxychloride trace minerals have a positive effect on growth performance, carcass quality and impact ileal and cecal microbiota in broiler chickens

	STM		HTM		P-value
	High	Low	High	Low	Source	Level	Source×Level
Ileum
Cu	11.0 ± 0.97	10.4 ± 0.66	13.0 ± 0.99	12.8 ± 0.52	0.0040	0.5539	0.7942
Zn	52.3 ± 5.60	24.2 ± 2.23	59.2 ± 6.67	26.8 ± 1.48	0.2020	< 0.0001	0.5616
Cecum
Cu	89.9 ± 11.42	96.1 ± 10.34	89.2 ± 5.45	92.0 ± 15.59	0.8163	0.6569	0.8671
Zn	175.7 ± 24.66^ab	117.7 ± 14.16^bc	224.8 ± 21.97^a	102.4 ± 21.71^c	0.2896	< 0.0001	0.0472

^a,b,c different superscripts inside of each row represent significant differences among treatments based on the source×level interaction effect (P < 0.05). P-values below 0.1 are bolded

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