Effect of varying levels of fish meal replacing soybean meal on the performance, nutrient metabolizability and egg quality in Khaki Campbell laying Ducks
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Bijaya Kumar Swain
ICAR-Central Avian Research Institute Regional Centre
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Ducks, Egg, Fish, Khaki Campbell, Laying, MetabolizabilityAbstract
The current investigation examined the effect of replacing soybean meal with fish meal on Khaki Campbell laying ducks performance, nutrient metabolizability and egg quality. Three groups of Khaki Campbell laying ducks (72, 55 weeks) have been arbitrarily fed three experimental diets (T1-Control diet without fish meal, T2- fish meal(4%), T3- fish meal(8%) for 153 days. All the diets were isonitrogenous and isocaloric. Ducks given 4 % fish meal demonstrated substantial (P<0.05) improvements in egg production, duck day egg production percent along with FCR. In ducks given 4 % fish meal, feed intake and cost per dozen egg were decreased(P<0.05). Feeding 4 % fish meal considerably improved (P<0.05) nutrient metabolizability. Ducks given 4 % fish meal had considerably higher egg quality attributes (P<0.05), i.e. haugh unit score,yolk index, albumen % and shape index. It may be concluded that substituting soybean meal with 4 % fish meal in Khaki Campbell laying duck diets improves egg production, FCR, egg quality, nutrient metabolizability and egg production cost.
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