Stimbiotic supplementation modulated intestinal inflammatory response and improved broilers performance in an experimentally-induced necrotic enteritis infection model

Table 4 Effects of dietary treatments and NE challenge on growth performance in broilers (Exp. 2) ¹

Treatment (T)	Challenge (C)	FI, g					FCR					bwc FCR
Treatment (T)	Challenge (C)	1–7 d	7–14 d	14–21 d	21–30 d	1–30 d	1–7 d	7–14 d	14–21 d	21–30 d	1–30 d
CON	NE-	160	344	665	1,536	2,705	1.11	1.32	1.59	1.87	1.63	1.62
STB	NE-	163	357	653	1,555	2,727	1.12	1.36	1.47	1.78	1.57	1.54
CB	NE-	161	346	663	1,564	2,734	1.08	1.31	1.50	1.77	1.56	1.52
CON	NE +	159	351	600	1,470	2,579	1.11	1.35	1.74	1.86	1.68	1.72
STB	NE +	159	349	598	1,492	2,598	1.08	1.33	1.71	1.84	1.63	1.66
CB	NE +	165	355	598	1,496	2,615	1.11	1.35	1.65	1.77	1.61	1.62
SEM²		1.9	8.0	7.9	49.9	51.9	0.017	0.036	0.037	0.065	0.002	0.028
Treatment
CON		159	347	632	1,503	2,642	1.11	1.33	1.66	1.86	1.65^a	1.67^a
STB		161	353	625	1,523	2,663	1.10	1.34	1.59	1.81	1.60^ab	1.60^b
CB		163	351	631	1,530	2,675	1.10	1.33	1.57	1.77	1.58^b	1.57^b
	Challenge
	NE-	161	349	660^a	1,551	2,722^a	1.10	1.33	1.^52b	1.81	1.59^b	1.56^b
	NE+	161	352	599^b	1,486	2,597^b	1.10	1.34	1.70^a	1.82	1.64^a	1.67^a
P-value
T		0.19	0.80	0.65	0.85	0.82	0.85	0.96	0.08	0.41	0.05	0.006
C		0.80	0.66	< 0.001	0.13	0.01	0.77	0.72	< 0.001	0.75	0.01	< 0.001
T × C		0.12	0.51	0.77	0.99	0.99	0.13	0.61	0.46	0.82	0.86	0.91

n = 16 birds/treatment. All birds received allotted treatment diet starting study 0 d
¹CON, no feed additives; STB, 100 mg/kg Signis from 0–30 d; CB, 100 mg/kg Signis, and 500 mg/kg Poultry star, 150 mg/kg Digestarom and 500 mg/kg Saf-mannan from 0–7, 7–21 and 21–30 d, respectively; NE-, non NE challenge; NE+ , NE challenge
²SEM standard error of mean
^a,bMeans in the same column with different superscripts are significantly different by Student’s test (P < 0.05)

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