Growth performance, caecal microbiome profile, short-chain fatty acids, and litter characteristics in response to placement on reused litter and combined threonine, arginine and glutamine supplementation to juvenile male broiler chickens

Table 4 pH and moisture content of litter samples of 21-day-old broilers fed C or TAG diets and placed on either clean or reused litter at day-old

Litter	Diet	pH	Moisture, %
Clean	C	6.67	30.00
Clean	TAG	6.57	27.36
Reused	C	7.35	25.10
	TAG	7.40	22.78
	SED	0.074	1.674
Means for main effect of litter
Clean		6.62^a	28.68^b
Reused		7.38^b	23.94^a
	SED	0.052	1.184
Means for main effect of diet
	C	7.01	27.55^b
	TAG	6.99	25.07^a
	SED	0.052	1.184
P values for main effects and interaction
Litter		< 0.001	< 0.001
Diet		0.707	0.041
Litter × Diet		0.172	0.894

C Control; TAG Threonine, arginine, and glutamine supplemented diets; Means within the same column with different superscripts differ at P < 0.05; SED, standard error of difference; Simple means represent 8 pens per treatment

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