Dietary Conjugated Linoleic Acid Alters Oxidative Stability and Alleviates Plasma Cholesterol Content in Meat of Broiler Chickens

Table 3

Body weight, feed intake, and gain/feed from broiler chickens fed with CON, LCLA, and HCLA.

Parameters	Experimental diets			SEM	value
	CON	LCLA	HCLA
Body weight (BW) (g)
Days 0–21	644.9^a	593.3^b	569.7^c	5.5	<0.0001
Days 21–42	1479.6^a	1466.1^a	1405.0^b	11.9	0.0205
Days 1–42	2120.6^a	2077.9^a	1974.7^b	13.6	<0.0001
Average daily gain (ADG) (g)
Days 0–21	30.711^a	28.492^b	27.120^c	9.966	<0.0001
Days 22–42	69.811^a	70.451^a	66.900^b	12.323	0.0202
Days 1–42	50.492^a	49.471^a	47.010^b	16.115	<0.0001
Feed intake (g)
Days 0–21	943.0	974.0	1008.2	21.4	0.379
Days 21–42	2428.8	2668.0	2584.7	50.8	0.180
Days 1–42	3371.8^b	3642.1^a	3592.9^ab	52.3	0.015
Gain/feed (G : F)
Days 0–21	0.685^a	0.610^b	0.564^c	0.006	<0.0001
Days 21–42	0.595^a	0.567^b	0.544^c	0.004	<0.0001
Days 1–42	0.630^a	0.572^b	0.549^c	0.004	<0.0001

CON: control; LCLA: low conjugated linoleic acid; HCLA: high conjugated linoleic acid. Data presented as means with pooled SEM (/treatment). ^a,b,cMeans within a row with no common superscript differ significantly ().