BW
Table 1 shows the growth (in %/h) per experiment and
treatment. TR 3 led to a decrease in BW of 0.47 ± 0.02%/
h for experiment 1 and 0.35 ± 0.02%/h for experiment 2.
TR 2 produced a mean decrease in BW of 0.30%/h. The
transport procedure obviously led to an extra decrease
in BW of approximately 0.05 to 0.17%/h. When the broilers
had access to feed until the moment of transport (TR
4) the mean decrease in finalBWwas 0.12%/h. At the start
of experiments 1 and 2, BW did not differ significantly for
any treatment group.