Table 2.
Effect of light intensity on liver weight, breast muscle weight, and length of the small intestine in broiler chicks from 0 to 7 days
Parameters
Light intensity (lx)
SEM
1
P-values
20
30
50
Liver weight (% of BW)
3.32
b
3.74
a
3.84
a
0.136
<0.05
Breast muscle weight (% of BW)
5.23
b
5.92
a
5.1
a
0.179
<0.05
Length of small intestine (cm)
37.28
38.43
38.38
0.693
0.42
SEM, standard error of means.
Means in same rows with different superscripts are significantly different (
P
<0.05).