Table 4. Bone length, weight, and skin thickness of breast meat from pig skin collagen-fed broilers
Treatments | NC | PC | T1 | T2 | T3 |
Bone weight (g) | 8.92±2.77 | 8.98±3.35 | 9.44±2.94 | 8.90±1.47 | 7.00±0.19 |
Bone length (cm) | 7.46±1.46 | 7.66±0.70 | 7.72±0.56 | 7.98±0.52 | 7.00±0.24 |
Skin thickness (cm) | 0.37±0.04a | 0.31±0.03ab | 0.38±0.03a | 0.38±0.04a | 0.26±0.06b |
NC, basal diet; PC, basal diet+0.1% fish collagen powder; T1, basal diet+0.1% collagen; T2, basal diet+0.5% collagen; T3, basal diet+1.0% collagen.
Means in the same row with different superscripts differ (p<0.05).