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

Table 4 Weight of the broiler chicken carcass and its elements

Item (g)	Group¹				SEM²	P-value
Item (g)	C	CH10	CH25	CH50	SEM²	P-value
Pre-slaughter body weight	2721.50^a	2539.10^ab	2464.90^b	2515.90^b	28.09	0.004
Carcass weight	2002.59^a	1862.40^ab	1784.66^b	1818.20^b	24.03	0.004
Carcass with offal weight	2094.25^a	1952.15^ab	1875.02^b	1907.20^b	24.01	0.003
Heart	15.47^a	13.33^ab	12.09^b	13.84^ab	0.36	0.006
Liver	51.79	48.86	51.59	49.40	1.38	0.842
Gizzard	24.40	27.56	26.68	25.76	1.07	0.766
Neck	64.36	62.70	59.97	60.17	1.59	0.740
Pectoral muscle	609.34^a	552.60^ab	523.76^b	581.43^ab	11.40	0.042
Leg muscle	392.97	394.55	367.96	355.01	7.12	0.133
Total muscle	1002.31	947.15	891.72	936.44	15.86	0.099
Skin with subcutaneous fat	183.35^a	168.36^a	168.63^a	140.96^b	4.05	0.001
Abdominal fat	15.71	18.89	17.55	22.91	1.12	0.129
Fatness	199.06^a	187.25^ab	186.18^ab	163.87^b	4.35	0.029
Wings with skin	182.38	179.66	175.62	179.61	2.58	0.843
Carcass remains	554.48^a	485.64^ab	471.17^b	478.11^b	10.36	0.010

^a,^b…, different letters in the row show statistically significant differences between the groups, P-value < 0.05
¹C control 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 held 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
²SEM standard error of the mean

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