Table 5. Effects of breed, laying age and egg storage period on the ratio of organ weight to body weight of 7 days old chicks
Factors | | Liver(%) | Heart(%) | Pancreas(%) | Spleen(%) |
Breed (A) | Jaeraejong | 3.89±0.44b | 1.04±0.18b | 0.55±0.12 | 0.11±0.04a |
K. Rhode | 3.82±0.58b | 1.16±0.19a | 0.54±0.14 | 0.1±0.04b |
K. Leghorn | 4.07±0.74a | 0.96±0.12c | 0.57±0.14 | 0.1±0.04ab |
Laying age (B) | 27~29wk | 4.13±0.70a | 0.98±0.18b | 0.5±0.13b | 0.08±0.03b |
50 ~ 52wk | 3.72±0.40b | 1.12±0.16a | 0.6±0.13a | 0.12±0.04a |
Egg storage period (C) | 3d | 3.89±0.57ab | 1.06±0.2 | 0.57±0.12 | 0.1±0.04 |
7d | 3.85±0.53b | 1.06±0.18 | 0.54±0.15 | 0.1±0.04 |
14d | 4.04±0.69a | 1.03±0.16 | 0.55±0.14 | 0.1±0.04 |
P values | A | 0.0016 | <0001 | 0.1673 | 0.0284 |
B | <0001 | <0001 | <0001 | <0001 |
C | 0.0244 | 0.1998 | 0.3801 | 0.5077 |
A × B | <0001 | 0.0236 | 0.6005 | <0001 |
A × C | 0.0105 | 0.0007 | 0.9628 | 0.9333 |
B × C | 0.0208 | 0.8102 | 0.0242 | 0.0119 |
A × B × C | 0.0616 | 0.0112 | 0.7051 | 0.3062 |
Values are mean±standard deviation.
The different superscripts within column in each factor significantly differ