Dietary supplemental coated essential oils and organic acids mixture improves growth performance and gut health along with reduces Salmonella load of broiler chickens infected with Salmonella Enteritidis

Table 3 Effects of dietary EOA supplementation on growth performances of broiler chickens infected with Salmonella Enteritidis (n = 6)

Time	Items	Groups					SEM¹	P-value
Time	Items	A	B	BL	BM	BH	SEM¹	P1²	Linear³	Quadratic⁴
d 1–23	ADG, g/bird/d	45.68	44.34	45.82	45.93	45.62	0.325	0.544	0.120	0.490
	ADFI, g/bird/d	61.06	60.22	60.78	62.91	61.55	0.479	0.524	0.132	0.027
	FCR⁵	1.34	1.38	1.32	1.36	1.34	0.011	0.371	0.120	0.985
d 24–39	ADG, g/bird/d	88.55	86.23	82.04	83.80	81.35	1.349	0.420	0.349	0.607
	ADFI, g/bird/d	143.34^ab	144.58^b	137.08^b	138.47^ab	130.79^c	1.285	0.001	0.023	0.009
	FCR	1.61^b	1.67^a	1.67^a	1.65^ab	1.61^b	0.009	0.021	0.582	0.008
d 39	ABW, g/bird	2,512.00	2,448.33	2,410.05	2,440.78	2,394.75	21.358	0.471	0.859	0.993
d 1–39	ADG, g/bird/d	63.29	61.67	60.67	61.45	60.29	0.732	0.398	0.679	0.775
	ADFI, g/bird/d	94.49^a	94.87^a	92.89^ab	93.66^ab	89.15^b	0.747	0.090	0.388	0.027
	FCR	1.49^b	1.54^a	1.53^a	1.52^a	1.48^b	0.008	0.015	0.817	0.020
	MOT, %	1.62	1.39	2.58	1.25	1.18	0.638	0.891	0.612	0.543

¹SEM Standard error of the mean
²P1-value represent the difference comparison between group A, B, BL, BM and BH groups
³Linear regression analysis among B, BL, BM and BH groups
⁴Quadratic curve analysis among B, BL, BM and BH groups
⁵FCR = feed conversion ratio = g of feed intake/g of body weight gain, g/g
^a–cMeans within the same row without a common superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05)
ADG Average daily gain, ADFI Average daily feed intake, ABW Average body weight, MOT Mortality. A: broiler chickens with basal diet and no infection, B: broiler chickens with basal diet and SE infection, BL: broiler chickens with basal diet supplemented with 300 mg/kg EOA and SE infection, BM: broiler chickens with basal diet supplemented with 500 mg/kg EOA and SE infection, BH: broiler chickens with basal diet supplemented with 800 mg/kg EOA and SE infection. EOA Coated essential oils and organic acids mixture

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