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

Table 4.

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

Treatment	DFI, g/d
Treatment	1 to 14 d	15 to 21 d	22 to 34 d	1 to 34 d
Control	30.7 ± 0.7	74.5 ± 1.8^a	147.2 ± 1.7^a	84.2 ± 2.8^a
DON 1 to 14 d	30.6 ± 1.0	66.5 ± 1.8^b	144.1 ± 2.1^a	81.2 ± 2.2^ab
DON 15 to 21 d	30.5 ± 1.1	73.5 ± 2.3^a	144.5 ± 2.1^a	82.8 ± 2.2^a
DON 22 to 34 d	31.1 ± 0.8	74.2 ± 1.4^a	137.6 ± 2.7^b	80.7 ± 2.1^ab
DON 1 to 34 d	28.9 ± 0.6	67.3 ± 2.2^b	135.5 ± 2.3^b	77.6 ± 2.4^b
ANOVA	P = 0.91	P < 0.01	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 P ≤ 0.05; 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.