Dietary sophorolipid accelerates growth by modulation of gut microbiota population and intestinal environments in broiler chickens

Table 3 Effects of sophorolipid on growth performance of broilers^1,2,3

Treatment	CON	BAM	SPL	SEM	P-value
Initial BW, g	40.16	40.12	40.19	0.045	0.853
Final BW, g	1911.8^b	2011.6^a	2010.3^a	18.587	0.035
ADG, g/d	53.48^b	56.33^a	56.29^a	0.531	0.035
ADFI, g/d	88.62	87.89	90.45	0.719	0.344
FE	0.60^b	0.64^a	0.62^ab	0.014	0.010

¹Treatments: CON, control group fed with basal diet; BAM, group fed with 10 mg/kg of bambermycin supplemented diet; SPL, group fed with 10 mg/kg of sophorolipid supplemented diet
²Abbreviations: ADFI average daily feed intake, ADG average daily gain, BW body weight, FE feed efficiency, SEM standard error of means
³A pen is an experimental unit; 6 replications (pens) per treatment; 30 chicks per pen
^{a, b} Mean values within a row have different superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0.05)

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