Table 7. Effect of dietary energy levels and bedding materials on chemical composition* of breast and thigh meats from either male or female slow-growing Korean meat-type chicken (Hanhyop 3)
Treatments | Moisture (%) Thigh | Fat (%) Breast | Ca (%) Breast | P (%) Thigh |
Sex | Bedding | Energy |
Male | Rice husks | High | 76.74ab | 1.36bc | 0.15a | 0.16b |
Low | 77.03ab | 1.40bc | 0.14b | 0.20a |
Saw dust | High | 77.20a | 0.95c | 0.15a | 0.18ab |
Low | 77.09ab | 2.01ab | 0.14b | 0.19a |
Female | Rice husks | High | 75.95abc | 2.51a | 0.15a | 0.16b |
Low | 76.11ab | 1.88ab | 0.14b | 0.17b |
Saw dust | High | 75.97bc | 1.49bc | 0.15a | 0.14c |
Low | 75.24c | 2.43a | 0.15a | 0.16b |
SEM | 0.71 | 1.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Main effect (P values) | Sex | <0.0001 | 0.0002 | NS | <0.0001 |
Bedding | NS | NS | NS | NS |
Energy | NS | NS | 0.044 | 0.0006 |
S×B | NS | NS | NS | NS |
S×E | NS | NS | NS | NS |
B×E | NS | 0.0002 | NS | NS |
Data on composition of moisture, protein, P in breast and protein, fat, Ca in thigh were not enlisted in this table since there were no significant differences.
Abbreviations, S×B: Sex×Bedding, S×E: Sex×Energy, B×E: Bedding×Energy, NS: Not significant.
Means with different superscripts in the same row differ (P<0.05).