Butyrate in combination with forskolin alleviates necrotic enteritis, increases feed efficiency, and improves carcass composition of broilers

Table 2 Growth performance of broilers in a 42-d trial¹

Items	Control²	Butyrate	FSK10	Butyrate +FSK10	SEM	P-value³
ADG, g/d
d 0–7	15.8	16.2	15.8	15.4	0.31	0.38
d 7–14	40.8^ab	42.4^a	41.8^ab	39.6^b	0.55	0.01
d 14–28	80.6	82.2	80.2	80.8	1.10	0.63
d 28–42	104.7	102.4	106.3	98.9	2.27	0.19
d 0–42	63.6	63.9	63.9	61.9	0.81	0.27
ADFI, g/d
d 0–7	23.0	25.2	22.7	24.0	1.08	0.22
d 7–14	60.9	59.7	57.1	57.9	1.21	0.13
d 14–28	114.5	117.6	115.6	113.7	1.55	0.33
d 28–42	182.1^a	177.3^ab	178.0^ab	167.6^b	3.17	0.02
d 0–42	99.7^a	99.2^ab	97.5^ab	94.5^b	1.20	0.02
FCR, g/g
d 0–7	1.65	1.56	1.44	1.56	0.06	0.17
d 7–14	1.50^a	1.41^ab	1.37^b	1.46^ab	0.03	0.02
d 14–28	1.42	1.43	1.44	1.41	0.01	0.09
d 28–42	1.74	1.74	1.68	1.70	0.02	0.18
d 0–42	1.57^a	1.55^ab	1.52^b	1.53^ab	0.01	0.03

¹The experiment was conducted with day-of-hatch male Cobb chicks with 9 replicate pens per treatment and 8 birds per pen (n = 9)
²Dietary treatments included: Control, basal diet; Butyrate, basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg microencapsulated sodium butyrate; FSK10, basal diet supplemented with 10 mg/kg of 20% forskolin (FSK)-containing Coleus forskohlii (CF) extract; Butyrate+FSK10, basal diet supplemented with 1 g/kg microencapsulated sodium butyrate and 10 mg/kg CF extract
³ Statistical significance was determined using one-way ANOVA, followed by post hoc Tukey’s test. The values in a row not sharing a common superscript are considered significantly different (P < 0.05)

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