The influence of dietary rice bran with phytase supplementation on growth performance of growing Muscovy ducks [electronic resource].

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The purpose of the current study was to assess the effect of rice bran (RB) inclusion with phytase supplementation as a possible feed ingredient in growing Muscovy ducks. One hundred Sixty two l-dayold males Muscovy ducklings were used to evaluate the effect of using rice bran on growth performance nutrients, digestibility, some carcass traits, some plasma constituents and economic efficiency. The effect of RB per se was recognized compared with the control group. The data of final body weight revealed that there were insignificant different among the experimental groups where, ducks fed 0.0% RB surpassed the other treated groups. Ducks fed 60% RB had the lowest body weight by 5.7% followed by birds fed 30% RB (2.4%) compared to the control.

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