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USING DRIED LEFTOVER FOODS AS UNTRADITIONAL FEED IN MUSCOVY DUCK DIETS

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Animal nutrition; Clinical Nutrition; Nutritional diseases

Abstract

The current work was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary leftover food inclusion on growth performance, carcass traits and some blood biochemical parameters of Muscovy ducks. Thirty six (36) two-week old ducks (average weight 393.2 g) were obtained from local commercial source and randomly distributed into 4 groups (9ducks/each). In the first group, ducklings were fed ad-libitum on grower-finisher control diet (diet 1), while birds in the second, third and fourth groups fed on diets containing 10%, 20% and 30% leftover food, respectively (diets 2, 3, 4). The experimental diets were formulated in a mash form (yellow corn, soybean meal, wheat bran and sunflower oil) to meet the minimum nutrient requirements cited by NRC (1994) for ducks. Ducklings were fed according to one phase feeding program (grower- finisher, 14- 70 days). Growth performance, carcass traits and some blood biochemical parameters were assessed. The results showed that, ducks fed on diets containing 10, 20, 30% leftover food achieved significantly (p < 0.05) higher body weight gain (3084.2±30.3, 3141.5±30.8, 3169.0±29.1 g), respectively compared with the control (2945.2±22.3g) with lower feed intake. Highest weight gain averages with best feed conversion (3.22, 3.14, and 3.11) respectively compared with the control. The highest dressing percentage was recorded in ducks fed on diet containing 30% leftover food (79.3%), while the lowest was observed in control group (75.6%). Addition of leftover food to duck diets had no significant effect (p < 0.05) on the weights of internal organ. Total serum protein, albumin and globulin values were decreased significantly (p < 0.05) by increasing the level of dietary leftover food. Inclusion of leftover food to duck diets increase significantly (p < 0.05) triglycerides and had no significant effect on serum cholesterol. Results of the current study concluded that, the best growth performance and economical feed efficiency was observed in ducks fed on diet containing 30% leftover food which surpassing all treated groups and achieved the best body weight gain.

DOI

10.21608/avmj.2018.168965

Keywords

Key words: Growth performance, carcass traits, leftover food, Ducks

Authors

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ENASA

Last Name

MOUSA

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Affiliation

Animal and Clinical Nutrition Dept., Fac. of Vet. Med., South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

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drenas_86@yahoo.com

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First Name

HASSAN

Last Name

ABDEL-RAHEEM

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Animal and Clinical Nutrition Dept., Fac. of Vet. Med., Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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First Name

GEHAN

Last Name

DAWOOD

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Affiliation

Food Hygiene Dept. Fac. of Vet. Med., South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

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Volume

64

Article Issue

158

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24310

Issue Date

2018-07-01

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2021-06-28

Publish Date

2018-07-01

Page Start

107

Page End

114

Print ISSN

1012-5973

Online ISSN

2314-5226

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Research article

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1,840

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Publication Title

Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal

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https://avmj.journals.ekb.eg/

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USING DRIED LEFTOVER FOODS AS UNTRADITIONAL FEED IN MUSCOVY DUCK DIETS

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Created At

23 Jan 2023