Table 5. Effects of dietary supplementation of grape seed proanthocyanidin on antibody titres against ND and IB vaccines in broiler chicks1),2)

NC PC Proanthocyanidin SEM p-value
10ppm 100ppm
ND titre (log10)
 0d 2.13 1.88 1.80 1.83 0.11 0.17
 7d 2.38b 2.75b 4.25a 4.50a 0.16 <0.05
 14d 5.50c 5.50c 5.88b 7.00a 0.16 <0.05
IB titre (log10)
 0d 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.50 0.05 0.18
 7d 0.50 1.25 1.65 1.63 0.06 0.15
 14d 0.75 1.13 1.73 1.85 0.11 0.21
Data are least squares means of 6 observations per treatment.
NC, antibiotic-free diet; PC, basal diet with avilamycin+salinomycin.
Means within the same row with no common superscripts differ significantly (p<0.05)