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Table 4 Productive performance from 14 to 21 days of the broilers fed with the experimental diets

From: Effect of protease supplementation on apparent ileal crude protein and amino acid digestibility of over-processed soybean meals in broilers

Parameter

SBM processing

Protease

Experimental diets

SEM

P-value

SBM

SBM30

SBM60

No

Yes

SBM

SBM + E

SBM30

SBM30 + E

SBM60

SBM60 + E

P

E

P × E

ADFI1, g/d

76.96x

76.36xy

73.43y

75.95

75.22

77.01

76.91

75.96

76.76

74.86

71.99

3.34

0.02

0.49

0.34

ADG, g/d

47.78

44.17

38.83

43.67

43.52

48.53a

47.01ab

42.27bc

46.08ab

40.21cd

37.45d

2.79

< 0.0001

0.86

0.01

FCR

1.61

1.73

1.90

1.75

1.75

1.59d

1.64cd

1.80abc

1.66bcd

1.86ab

1.95a

0.12

< 0.0001

0.99

0.04

  1. 1Abbreviations: ADFI average daily feed intake, ADG average daily gain, FCR feed conversion ratio, SEM standard error of the mean, P soybean meal processing, E enzyme supplementation
  2. a,b,c,dMeans with different superscript letters within a row are significantly different (P < 0.05)
  3. x,yMeans with different superscript letters within a row are significantly different (P < 0.05)