. 2021 Aug 30;11(9):2541. doi: 10.3390/ani11092541

Table 3.

Effects of diets containing T-2 toxin and green tea powder on growth performance of Brown Tsaiya ducklings and Kaiya ducklings.

Treatment	Feed Intake, g/bird/day			BWG, g/bird/day			FCR, g/g
Treatment	1st Week	2nd Week	3rd Week	1st Week	2nd Week	3rd Week	1st Week	2nd Week	3rd Week
T-2 toxin (T), mg/kg
0	25.9	60.3 ^a	79.5 ^a	12.7	29.2 ^a	38.6 ^a	2.27	2.35	2.21
0.5	26.4	59.2 ^ab	77.8 ^ab	12.7	27.2 ^b	36.0 ^a	2.44	2.62	2.34
5	25.4	57.3 ^b	75.2 ^b	11.7	26.8 ^b	33.2 ^b	2.54	2.51	2.45
Green tea powder (G), %
0	25.8	59.0	77.4	12.6	27.9	33.7 ^b	2.44	2.46	2.50 ^a
0.5	26.0	58.6	77.7	12.2	27.5	38.2 ^a	2.39	2.52	2.17 ^b
Breed (B)
BTD ¹	24.3 ^b	57.1 ^b	74.5 ^b	7.91 ^b	17.0 ^b	26.6 ^b	3.19 ^a	3.40 ^a	2.88 ^a
KD	27.4 ^a	60.5 ^a	80.5 ^a	16.9 ^a	38.4 ^a	45.4 ^a	1.64 ^b	1.58 ^b	1.80 ^b
SEM	0.851	1.293	1.926	0.732	1.156	2.202	0.212	0.162	0.206
Source of variation	p-Values
T	0.2698	0.0141	0.0066	0.0787	0.0101	0.0021	0.2179	0.0774	0.1525
G	0.7052	0.6343	0.7600	0.3423	0.5655	0.0004	0.7104	0.5521	0.0024
B	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001
T × G	0.7839	0.1898	0.2785	0.6109	0.8407	0.7586	0.8118	0.9784	0.5457
T × B	0.0196	0.1997	0.9445	0.2354	0.4165	0.3424	0.5272	0.3158	0.8393
G × B	0.7814	0.0016	0.1823	0.0124	0.6165	0.8757	0.0980	0.2232	0.1688
T × G × B	0.6305	0.3593	0.9224	0.1981	0.6651	0.4780	0.3967	0.7332	0.7325

^a,b Means without the same superscripts in the same column differ (p < 0.05). ¹ BTD: Brown Tsaiya duckling; BWG: body weight gain; FCR: feed conversion ratio; KD: Kaiya duckling.