Effect of management system on broiler duck performance for smallholder duck production in the Mekong Delta (Author: Bui Xuan Men and Vuong Nam Trung)

Bui Xuan Men and Vuong Nam Trung

SUMMARY

240 mixed male and female crossbred (Super M x Nong nghiep breed) ducklings at 21 days of age were allocated at random to three treatments, with four replicates on one farm. Each replicate group, consisting of 20 ducks was managed in a separate pen. The treatments were: ducks were confined on hay litter floors (PT1); ducks were confinement on wire floors over the  fish pond (PT2); ducks were confined on wire floors with access to the water of duck-fish integration. All the ducks in the treatments were supplied the same diets ad libitum containing 2900 kcal/kg and 16,5% protein. Also, the ducks were supplemented the chopped fresh water-hyacinth with restricted amounts of 8,3 g/head/day. The parameters recorded were feed intake, body weight and weight gain, feed efficiency, mortality, feed costs, meat quality and net profit. The results showed that ducks raised in the integrated duck-fish system (PT3) gave the best live weight gains (P<0,001) and net profit obtained was higher than those of the PT1 and PT2, from 13 to 18%, respectively. 

Key words: Broiler duck, duck-fish integration, live weight gain, benefit.

From: Journal of Animal Husbandry Sciences and Technics – AHAV

No.153 – 2011, page 39-43

Author: Vuong Nam Trung Email: vuongnamtrung@yahoo.com

Insititute of Agricultural Science for Southern Vietnam