. 2018 Sep 25;5(1):32–40. doi: 10.1016/j.aninu.2018.08.001

Table 3.

Effects of feeding deoxynivalenol (DON)-contaminated diets during different growth stages on average daily gain (ADG) of male broilers during a 34-day growth trial.¹

Treatment	ADG, g/d
Treatment	1 to 14 d	15 to 21 d	22 to 34 d	1 to 34 d
Control	22.5 ± 0.7	52.2 ± 1.2^a	82.8 ± 2.2^a	49.9 ± 2.1^a
DON 1 to 14 d	20.4 ± 1.0	48.9 ± 1.4^ab	86.6 ± 1.9^a	48.8 ± 1.8^a
DON 15 to 21 d	23.1 ± 1.1	48.3 ± 2.0^ab	82.6 ± 2.0^a	48.6 ± 1.9^a
DON 22 to 34 d	22.2 ± 0.8	50.0 ± 1.3^ab	66.3 ± 2.0^b	42.9 ± 1.5^b
DON 1 to 34 d	20.6 ± 0.6	45.5 ± 1.1^b	66.4 ± 1.5^b	41.3 ± 1.6^b
ANOVA	P = 0.50	P = 0.04	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).

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.