Evaluation of cottonseed bioactive peptides supplementation on performance, egg quality, and total antioxidant activity of serum in laying hens

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Table 4 Effect of cotton seed bioactive peptides supplementation on the body weight, food consumption, and food conversion efficiency of laying hens

	Item	Dietary treatments		SEM^**	P value
	Item	Control	5 g BPC^*/kg	SEM^**	P value
Whole trial	Egg mass (g per hen daily)	54.83	55.24	0.57	0.64
	ADFI (g)	106	107	1.15	0.57
	FCR (feed/gain)	1.93	1.93	0.05	1.00
	Final body weight (g)	1622^b	1644^a	5.77	0.05
	Body weight gain (g/d)	2.14^b	2.55^a	0.12	0.04

^*Cottonseed bioactive peptide. ^** Standard error of mean. ^a−b Values in the same row not sharing a common superscript differ P < 0.05. ADFI, average daily feed intake; FCR, feed conversion ratio