Table 3.

Effect of dietary raw potato starch (RPS) supplementation on growth performance for meat ducks.

Item	RPS, % of diet weight				P -value
	0	6	12	24	ANOVA	Linear	Quadratic
Body weight at 14 d, g/bird	552.51 ± 27.94	592.1 ± 16.46	596.89 ± 20.86	578.86 ± 28.35	0.056	0.236	0.069
Feed intake during 1–14 d, g/bird	654.81 ± 3.24	655.78 ± 2.89	656.18 ± 2.94	654.57 ± 3.22	0.773	0.801	0.565
Feed intake: gain during 1–14 d, g/g	1.19 ± 0.06	1.11 ± 0.04	1.10 ± 0.04	1.22 ± 0.06	0.063	0.229	<0.001
Mortality during 1–14 d, %	3.33 ± 5.58	2.22 ± 3.44	1.11 ± 2.72	2.22 ± 3.44	0.813	0.635	0.626