Use of coffee husks – comparison of pellet bedding quality, performance features, and some welfare indicators of broiler chickens

Table 2 Physical features of freshly prepared pellet bedding and used litter scale

Item¹	Group²				SEM³	P-value
Item¹	C	CH10	CH25	CH50	SEM³	P-value
Firmness (N)	75.96	105.61	90.86	96.78	5.23	0.256
Toughness (N*sec)	45.63	70.47	64.98	43.00	5.95	0.316
Absorptive capacity (%) 24 h	523.43	521.89	522.69	515.43	5.32	0.958
Absorptive capacity (%) 48 h	496.83	486.00	515.00	496.83	4.40	0.129
Litter assessment scale (points)	3.10^a	1.60^b	1.00^b	1.30^b	0.20	< 0.001

¹Litter assessment scale, 5-points scale modified from Welfare Quality Assessment Protocol (Welfare Quality R Consortium, 2009)
²Ccontrol group kept on the wheat straw bedding; CH10, group held on the bedding with 10% of coffee husks and 90% of wheat straw; CH25, group kept on the bedding with 25% of coffee husks and 75% of wheat straw; CH50, group held on the bedding with 50% of coffee husks and 50% of wheat straw
³SEM standard error of the mean

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