Undergraduate Thesis
Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Animal Science
University of Rizal System, Rodriguez, Rizal

2025

This study examined how common duckweed affects the growth of Rhode Island Red. The experiment occurred in Sitio Toyang, Barangay Mascap from October 7, 2024, to January 7, 2025. The researchers used common duckweed as an alternative feed supplement for native chickens.

The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with three treatments. The three treatments were T1 (Control group), T2 (30% of common duckweed), and T3 (50% of common duckweed); both Treatments 2 and 3 were mixed with commercial feeds before feeding it into the chicken's diet and the treatments were applied every day.

The study findings show that Treatment 3 with 50 grams of common duckweed mixed with feeds has the highest effect on the growth performance of Rhode Island Red in terms of its average daily gain in weight, with a mean of 0.0921kg, followed by T2 with a mean of 0.0238 and lastly the lowest with 0.0232 from T1. Treatment 1, received without common duckweed, significantly affects the growth performance of Rhode Island red in terms of average feed consumption, with a mean of 278.23 g, followed by T2 with an average mean of 157.76 g, and lastly Treatment 3 with the lowest mean of 139.17 grams. Treatment 2 had the highest mean of 0.017 in terms of feed conversion efficiency of the chickens; on the other hand, Treatment 3 was the second highest with a mean of 0.015, and the last control group had the lowest mean of 0.008. On the other hand, average water consumption, given with pure water and 50 grams of common duckweed, had the highest mean of 6.405 L. compared to other groups. The study's findings indicate that parameters induding the average daly gain in weight (value of 0.80) show no significant difference. There were significant differences in the average leed consumption with a p-value of 0.01. Additionally, feed conversion efficiency, the application of common dockweed as alternative feed sacilement shows significant difference value of 0.18. The findings of Apewa on the average water consumpten of Rhode Island Rect fed with Varying levels of commen Suckweed, with a Palue of 0.48 showed no sign of significance. The findings showed in the fancial performance that Treatment 3 bad the highest rettisestament of 90.82%, while Treatment 2 fed with 30 grams of common duckweed had the highest gross sales of 13, 496 pesos. Treatment 2 was the second highest return on investment of 71.21% followed by Treatment it with 63.15% of retum on investment

Based on the fedings, the researchers corchose that the inclusion of 30 grams of common duckweed has the highest positive effect on the growth performance of Rhode Island Red in terms of daily gain in weight and feed conversion efficiency. On the other hand, 50 grams have a high effect in terms of feed consumption and water consumption. The study revealed that the utilization of common duckweed significantly inproves the growth performance of Rhode Island Red in terms of feed conversion efficiency.