Table 6. Effect of dietary energy levels and bedding materials on color scores of breast and TBARS values of thigh from either male or female slow-growing Korean meat-type chicken (Hanhyop 3)

Treatments			Color score of breast			TBARS of thigh at
Sex	Bedding	Energy	L*	a*	b*	1d	12d
Male	Rice husks	High	51.17^ab	1.54^b	5.19^ab	0.1795^c	0.5001^b
	Rice husks	Low	52.22^ab	2.18^ab	3.85^b	0.2041^a	0.5076^ab
	Saw dust	High	49.86^b	2.62^a	4.78^b	0.1937^abc	0.5147^ab
	Saw dust	Low	53.09^a	1.73^b	4.28^b	0.1959^ab	0.5109^ab
Female	Rice husks	High	52.05^ab	1.80^b	5.23^ab	0.1854^bc	0.5115^ab
	Rice husks	Low	53.35^a	1.55^b	5.03^ab	0.1896^abc	0.5267^ab
	Saw dust	High	52.85^a	1.92^ab	6.50^a	0.1962^ab	0.5284^ab
	Saw dust	Low	53.16^a	2.10^ab	4.81^b	0.2023^a	0.5312^a
SEM			1.50	0.50	0.95	0.0096	0.0182
Main effect (P values)		Sex	0.028	NS	0.020	NS	0.017
		Bedding	NS	NS	NS	0.041	NS
		Energy	0.012	NS	0.013	0.015	NS
		S×B	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
		S×E	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
		B×E	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS

Abbreviations, S×B: Sex×Bedding, S×E: Sex×Energy, B×E: Bedding×Energy, NS: Not significant, TBARS: Thio-barbituric acid reactive substances.
Means with different superscripts in the same row differ (P<0.05).