Effects of feed form and feed particle size with dietary L- threonine supplementation on performance, carcass characteristics and blood biochemical parameters of broiler chickens

Table 4 Effects of dietary treatments on blood biochemical characteristics of broilers

Treatment	Cholesterol	Triglyceride	Glucose	LDL	HDL	VLDL
	(mg/dl)
Feed form
Mash	128.8	94.7^b	232.9	67.1	43.2	18.9^b
Pellet	129.5	133.9^a	258.8	68.8	41.5	26.6^a
Feed size
Course	137.7	119.2	259.6	68.7	43.6	23.7
Fine	120.6	109.4	232.5	67.2	41.0	21.8
L-threonine
+	125.6	87.7^b	237.3	68.2	42.7	17.5^b
-	132.7	140.9^a	254.5	67.6	42.0	28.1^a
SEM	7.96	9.80	16.03	2.33	1.44	1.98
Interaction effects
	Probability value
A × B	0.53	0.38	0.96	0.44	0.77	0.37
A × C	0.10	1.00	0.83	0.06	0.15	0.97
B × C	0.45	0.68	0.60	0.86	0.60	0.66
A × B × C	0.41	0.13	0.80	0.67	0.84	0.12

^a-bMeans without a common superscripts in per column are significantly different (P < 0.05).
A: feed form; B: feed size; C: L-threonine.

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