1. Growth Performance, Carcass Yield, and Quality and Chemical Traits of Meat from Commercial Korean Native Ducks with 2-Way Crossbreeding
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C. D. Kim, Hoonsung Choi, M. J. Lee, Jaehwan Kim, M. M. H. Mushtaq, E. C. Hong, H. K. Kim, H. J. Choo, K. N. Heo, and R. Parvin
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Meal ,Veterinary medicine ,Korean Native Duck ,Carcass Quality ,Growth Performance ,Significant difference ,lcsh:Animal biochemistry ,Biology ,Body weight ,Crossbreed ,Feed conversion ratio ,Article ,Korean Native ,Amino acid composition ,Animal Science and Zoology ,lcsh:Animal culture ,lcsh:QP501-801 ,lcsh:SF1-1100 ,Food Science - Abstract
This work was conducted to investigate the performance and meat characteristics of commercial Korean native duck (KND). A total of 180 1-d-old ducklings of 2-way crossbreds from A and B lines (from National Institute of Animal Science) were used in this work and divided into 4 groups (3 replicates/group, 15 birds/replicate). The four groups were 4 crossbreds as AA (A line [♀]×A line [♂]), AB (A line [♀]×B line [♂]), BB (Pure line B strains) and BA (B strains [♀]×A strain [♂]). Ducks were fed diets based on corn-soybean meal for 0 to 3 wk (22.4% crude protein [CP], 2,945 kcal/kg metabolizable energy [ME]) and 3 to 8 wk (18.4% CP, 3,047 kcal/kg ME). As a result of this study, average body weight of 4 crossbreds were 625, 1,617, 2,466, and 2,836 g at 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks, respectively, and significantly increased over the period of time (p
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- 2015