Table 2.
Color values of leg meat from different native chicken lines with different growing periods

	5 weeks			12 weeks			SEM²	p-value³
	CON¹	CL1	CL2	CON	CL1	CL2	SEM²	Line	Period
Skin			L^*	75.80^bc	72.41^c	73.53^bc	76.67^ab	80.04^a	77.09^ab	1.06	0.8121	0.0002^**
a^*	2.24^a	2.40^a	2.35^a	0.12^b	0.07^b	—0.57^b	0.33	0.8554	<0.0001^***
b^*	6.19^a	4.93^a	1.80^b	7.77^a	7.67^a	5.38^a	1.15	0.0116^*	0.0113^*
Muscle	L^*	60.48	59.76	59.90	60.51	60.15	58.59	1.36	0.6291	0.7795
	a^*	3.47^a	3.20^a	3.08^a	0.31^b	0.08^b	0.09^b	0.39	0.9246	<0.0001^***
	b^*	7.87^a	6.25^a	6.71^a	2.55^b	2.74^b	1.22^b	0.69	0.6417	<0.0001^***

CON: Commercial native chicken, CL1: Candidate line C of GSP, CL2: Candidate line D of GSP.
Standard error of the means (n=30).
Significant differences at P<0.05^*, P<0.01^**, P<0.001^***
Mean values with different letters within the same row differ significantly (P<0.05).