Influence of bacterial organic selenium on blood parameters, immune response, selenium retention and intestinal morphology of broiler chickens

Table 3 Effects of inorganic and bacterial organic Se sources on serum and tissues Se concentration, and selenium retention in broiler chickens

Parameters	Dietary treatments ^a					SEM	P value
Parameters	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	SEM	Anova	B	O
0–21 days
Ingested Se µg/g	101.05^b	403.91^a	413.81^a	406.80^a	407.65^a	32.82	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	0.0632
Excreted Se µg/g	45.71^d	179.95^ab	233.38^a	170.57^b	109.08^c	17.41	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	0.4766
Retention %	54.76^b	55.45^b	46.08^b	58.07^b	73.24^a	2.82	0.012	0.4694	0.4550
22–42 days
Ingested Se µg/g	236.3^e	705.6^d	792.2^c	819.9^b	920.4^a	63.95	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	< 0.0001
Excreted Se µg/g	118.33^c	233.37^b	232.75^b	302.16^a	256.00^ab	17.62	0.001	< 0.0001	0.1841
Retention %	49.93^b	66.93^a	70.62^a	63.15^a	72.19^a	2.39	0.002	0.0002	0.6183

B = basal diet VS Se supplemented diets, O = organic Se VS inorganic Se, P < 0.05 = significant differences
^{a− c}Means with different letter within a row differed significantly
^aT1; basal diet, T2; basal diet + 0.3 mg/ kg feed sodium selenite, T3; basal diet + 0.3 mg/ kg feed ADS1 Se, T4; basal diet + 0.3 mg/ kg feed ADS2 Se, T5; basal diet + 0.3 mg/ kg feed ADS18 Se

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