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. 2022 Mar 17;9:860086. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.860086

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Dietary RPS and drinking short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) addition improve tibia mass in meat ducks. (A) Water consumption, (B) performance including body weight at 14 day and feed intake during 1–14 days, and (C) tibia length and diameter were determined. The bone quality was indicated by (D) tibia strength and (E) ash. (F) Representative micro CT images and the quantification of (G) bone volume/total volume (BV/TV) and (H) trabecular thickness (Tb.Th) of the proximal tibia. Data are expressed as mean and standard deviation. ^a,b Mean values with different letters are significantly different by one-way analysis of variance followed by Tukey's post-hoc test (p < 0.05).