Table 5. Effect of stock density and nutrient levels on carcass, partial meat ratio and proximate analysis in Korean native chickens (d 70)
Treatment1 | Carcass rate (%) | (g/BW 100g) | Proximate analysis (%) |
SD | EL | Breast | Drumsticks | Abdominal fat | Dry mater | Crude protein | Crude fat |
14 × | Low | 70.09 | 21.04 | 14.00 | 2.04 | 25.06 | 22.81 | 0.94 |
High | 71.47 | 21.44 | 14.35 | 2.15 | 24.90 | 23.18 | 0.89 |
16 × | Low | 69.49 | 20.16 | 13.64 | 2.05 | 24.05 | 23.03 | 1.03 |
High | 71.13 | 20.96 | 13.40 | 2.30 | 24.53 | 23.06 | 1.04 |
14 | | 70.78 | 21.24 | 14.18 | 2.09 | 24.98 | 22.99 | 0.92 |
16 | | 70.31 | 20.56 | 13.52 | 2.17 | 24.29 | 23.05 | 1.04 |
| Low | 69.79 | 20.60 | 13.82 | 2.04 | 24.56 | 22.92 | 0.99 |
| High | 71.30 | 21.20 | 13.88 | 2.22 | 24.71 | 23.12 | 0.97 |
SEM2 | | 0.29 | 0.23 | 0.23 | 0.06 | 0.15 | 0.06 | 0.02 |
P-vlaue3 | | | | | | | |
SD | | 0.433 | 0.157 | 0.170 | 0.170 | 0.551 | 0.028 | 0.025 |
EL | | 0.011 | 0.210 | 0.210 | 0.912 | 0.183 | 0.620 | 0.744 |
SD × EL | | 0.827 | 0.681 | 0.681 | 0.538 | 0.615 | 0.310 | 0.545 |
SD: stock density (birds/m2); EL: energy levels (ME kcal/kg): High: starter (3,150), grower (3,200), final (3,250); Low: starter (2,950), grower (3,000), final (3,050).
SEM: standard error of means.
SD: stock density; EL: energy levels; SD × EL: stock density × energy levels.