Table 6.
Content of muscles and fat in 7-week-old ducks.
| Group 1 | Weight and Proportion in Carcass | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muscles | Skin with Subcutaneous Fat | Abdominal Fat | Total Fat | |||||||||
| Breast | Legs | Total | ||||||||||
| g | % | g | % | g | % | g | % | g | % | g | % | |
| I | 410.82 | 18.25 | 291.56 | 13.00 | 702.38 | 31.25 | 530.37 | 23.73 | 23.60 | 1.06 | 553.97 | 24.79 |
| II | 413.17 | 17.52 | 301.60 | 12.79 | 714.77 | 30.31 | 598.89 a | 25.49 | 23.87 | 1.02 | 622.76 a | 26.51 |
| III | 398.60 | 17.27 | 305.24 | 13.21 | 703.84 | 30.48 | 549.77 | 23.71 | 23.85 | 1.03 | 573.62 | 24.74 |
| IV | 379.98 | 17.78 | 261.30 | 12.31 | 641.28 | 30.09 | 480.28 b | 22.50 | 17.93 | 0.84 | 498.21 b | 23.34 |
| V | 397.94 | 18.17 | 298.73 | 13.63 | 696.67 | 31.80 | 495.69 | 22.71 | 20.77 | 0.95 | 516.46 | 23.66 |
| SEM | 7.37 | 0.28 | 7.67 | 0.32 | 12.35 | 0.47 | 8.77 | 0.48 | 1.05 | 0.05 | 12.29 | 0.51 |
| p | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS | 0.020 | NS | NS | NS | 0.022 | NS |
a and b—mean values marked in columns with different letters are significantly different between groups, p < 0.05, NS—no significance; 1 I—soybean meal; II—yellow lupin and rapeseed meal (RSM); III—yellow lupin and narrow-leaved lupin; IV—pea and yellow lupin; V—RSM, yellow lupin, narrow-leaved lupin, and pea.