Table 5.
Effect of dietary supplementation of ginseng by-products on erythrocyte and leukocytes profile in broilers
| Items1 | Treatments2 |
| CON | GB1 | GB2 | GLS1 | GLS2 | SEM3 |
| Erythrocyte | | | | | | |
| RBC (K/μL) | 2.00 | 1.93 | 2.00 | 2.12 | 1.97 | 0.136 |
| HGB (g/μL) | 7.04 | 7.18 | 7.50 | 7.32 | 7.10 | 0.507 |
| HCT (%) | 29.6 | 29.2 | 30.4 | 31.0 | 29.8 | 1.765 |
| MCV (fL) | 131.0 | 132.0 | 134.5 | 132.2 | 132.7 | 3.684 |
| MCH (g/dL) | 31.1 | 32.4 | 33.2 | 31.2 | 31.7 | 1.851 |
| MCHC (g/dL) | 23.7 | 24.5 | 24.7 | 23.6 | 23.9 | 0.941 |
| PLT (K/μL) | 68.0 | 76.0 | 69.8 | 54.6 | 83.3 | 18.28 |
| RDW-CV (%) | 9.28 | 9.50 | 9.26 | 9.16 | 9.28 | 0.279 |
| Leukocytes | | | | | | |
| WBC (K/μL) | 48.0 | 64.5 | 58.0 | 51.2 | 62.4 | 12.61 |
| Lymp (K/μL) | 53.2 | 51.0 | 50.0 | 51.5 | 51.8 | 6.58 |
| Hetero (K/μL) | 28.2 | 30.0 | 32.6 | 27.6 | 32.6 | 7.71 |
| Mono (K/μL) | 14.0 | 14.0 | 11.4 | 11.6 | 11.8 | 3.61 |
| Eo (K/μL) | 3.60 | 3.80 | 4.60 | 4.20 | 2.60 | 1.166 |
| Baso (K/μL) | 1.25 | 1.50 | 1.75 | 1.25 | 1.50 | 0.532 |
RBC, red blood cell count; HGB, hemoglobin; HCT, hematocrit; MCV, mean corpuscular volume; MCH, mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; PLT, Platelets; RDW- CV, red blood cell distribution width-coefficient of variation; WBC, white blood cell count; Lymp, lymphocyte; Hetero, heterophil; Mono, monocyte; Eo, eosinophil; Baso, basophil.
CON, basal diet; GB1, basal diet + ginseng berry 0.5%; GB2, basal diet + ginseng berry 1.0%; GLS1, basal diet + ginseng leaves and stems 0.5%; GLS2, basal diet + ginseng leaves and stems 1.0%.
SEM, standard error of means.