Table 4. pH and CIE color of broiler breast and thigh with different slaughter age

Traits	Slaughter age (d)				Pooled SEM
Traits	28	30	32	34	Pooled SEM
Breast
pH	5.84^b	5.84^b	5.83^b	5.86^a	0.01
CIE L*	54.23	54.86	55.30	54.77	0.19
CIE a*	3.40^b	3.60^ab	3.60^ab	4.10^a	0.10
CIE b*	8.10	8.10	8.70	8.13	0.20
Thigh
pH	6.06^c	6.14^b	6.28^a	6.34^a	0.03
CIE L*	54.60^a	52.78^b	52.10^bc	51.10^c	0.41
CIE a*	4.10	4.27	5.03	4.97	0.29
CIE b*	7.45	7.30	7.11	6.81	0.16

These experiments were assessed after a minimum of three repeated trials.
All values are mean and pooled (SEM).
Means in the same row with different letters are significantly different (p < 0.05).