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Table 4 Growth performance of broilers fed the experimental diets containing expeller-extracted canola meal (EECM) or solvent extracted canola meal (SECM) levels at 0, 100, 200 g/kg

From: Determination of ileal digestible and apparent metabolizable energy contents of expeller-extracted and solvent-extracted canola meals for broiler chickens by the regression method

Item

0

EECM

SECM

SEM

P value

100

200

100

200

La

Qa

Lb

Qb

Initial body weight (g)

400

400

400

401

400

0.5

0.858

0.608

0.744

0.273

Final body weight (g)

762

768

724

766

737

14.2

0.077

0.179

0.223

0.367

Body weight gain (g/7 day/bird)

362

368

324

365

337

14.0

0.074

0.168

0.221

0.380

Feed intake (g/7 day/bird)

558

526

514

531

525

19.1

0.124

0.694

0.248

0.661

Feed efficiency (g/kg)

655

699

635

689

642

25.2

0.589

0.099

0.707

0.196

  1. Values are means of five replicate cages with six birds per cage
  2. SEM standard error of the mean
  3. aLinear (L) and quadratic (Q) contrasts for the EECM
  4. bLinear (L) and quadratic (Q) contrasts for the SECM