Carcass and Organ Characteristics of Muscovy Ducks Reared under Three Management Systems in South Eastern Nigeria

摘要

An experiment was conducted to evaluate carcass parameters of muscovy ducks reared under semi intensive system (SI), intensive system with wallow (IW) and intensive system without wallow (IO) in a randomized complete block design (RCBD). Thirty six ducks (18 males and 18 females) were slaughtered from the three treatments comprising 3 males and three females from each of two replicates of a treatment selected randomly at the age of 20 weeks. Carcass yield, thigh muscle weight and breast muscle weight of ducks under intensive systems were significantly higher (P 0.05) were observed in these parameters that can be attributed to management systems. In conclusion, rearing Muscovy ducks under intensive system of management produced better carcass yield .