Table 2.
Effects of feeding deoxynivalenol (DON)-contaminated diets1 during different growth stages on body weight of male broilers during a 34-day growth trial.
| Treatment | Body weight, g |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 14 d | 21 d | 34 d | |
| Control | 359.5 ± 10.0 | 724.6 ± 14.2a | 1,695.0 ± 22.5a |
| DON 1 to 14 d | 330.9 ± 14.1 | 673.4 ± 17.8ab | 1,720.0 ± 26.4a |
| DON 15 to 21 d | 368.9 ± 9.8 | 707.0 ± 17.1ab | 1,717.0 ± 28.5a |
| DON 22 to 34 d | 356.7 ± 8.6 | 706.6 ± 10.4ab | 1,517.5 ± 21.0b |
| DON 1 to 34 d | 332.4 ± 7.3 | 650.8 ± 13.9b | 1,433.7 ± 24.9b |
| ANOVA | P = 0.43 | P < 0.01 | P < 0.01 |
a, b Within a column, means ± SE with different superscripts are significantly different (P ≤ 0.05, one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey–Kramer test; n = 12/treatment).
1
The starter diets were fed from 1 to 21 d (0.41 and 6.62 mg/kg DON), and the grower diets were fed from 22 to 34 d (0.54 and 7.90 mg/kg DON). The DON-diets were prepared with wheat naturally contaminated with Fusarium mycotoxins.