Bacteriophage cocktail supplementation improves growth performance, gut microbiome and production traits in broiler chickens

Table 2 The effect of bacteriophage cocktail supplementation on growth performance in broilers^a

Items	PC	CON	BP 0.05	BP 0.10	SEM^b	P-value
Items	PC	0%	0.05%	0.10%	SEM^b	PC vs. CON	CON vs. BP 0.05, BP 0.10	PC vs. BP 0.05, BP 0.10	Linear	Quadratic
d 1 to 7
BWG, g	114.33	109.55	111.37	116.92	2.092	0.1235	0.0896	0.9437	0.0383	0.5101
FI, g	138.68	135.74	139.2	141.19	3.049	0.5077	0.2476	0.6833	0.1746	0.8240
FCR	1.213	1.241	1.253	1.21	0.025	0.4302	0.749	0.5538	0.2499	0.2511
d 8 to 21
BWG, g	706.35	675.18	683.16	685.25	11.94	0.0813	0.5447	0.1471	0.6080	0.8671
FI, g	1017.19	969.53	985.43	990.12	12.93	0.0178	0.2644	0.0796	0.2770	0.7263
FCR	1.441	1.443	1.444	1.4471	0.032	0.9749	0.9422	0.9134	0.9344	0.9874
d 22 to 35
BWG, g	977.95	927.46	958.56	982.54	20.62	0.1006	0.1052	0.773	0.0379	0.8647
FI, g	1774.22	1741.25	1744.61	1755.91	27.8	0.4127	0.4943	0.4907	0.6542	0.8881
FCR	1.820	1.883	1.826	1.791	0.044	0.3226	0.1821	0.8333	0.0840	0.7902
Overall
BWG, g	1798.63	1712.19	1753.09	1784.71	23.00	0.016	0.0593	0.3053	0.0288	0.8576
FI, g	2930.06	2846.52	2869.25	2887.22	30.64	0.0698	0.4902	0.1842	0.2470	0.9359
FCR	1.63	1.665	1.638	1.619	0.023	0.2881	0.2052	0.902	0.1370	0.8915

^a Abbreviation: CON Basal diet without antibiotics or bacteriophage; PC CON + 0.025% AVILAMIX®; BP 0.05 CON + 0.05% Bacteriophage; BP 0.10 CON + 0.10% Bacteriophage
^b Standard error of means
Values represent the means of 7 cages with 18 chickens per replication cage

ISSN: 2049-1891