Growth Performance and Nutrient Digestibility of Broiler Chickens Fed Three Seed Cake Based Diets
Abstract
The study was conducted to evaluate the growth performance and nutrient digestibility of broiler chickens fed three seed cake-based diets partly substituted with soya bean cake (SBC). A total of 350 day old Cobb 500 broiler chicks were allotted into four dietary treatments each replicated four times with 22 birds in a completely randomized design (CRD). Four diets were formulated with maize-SBC based diet as control T1, treatment T2, T3 and T4 were groundnut cake (GNC), roselle seed cake (RSC) and baobab seed cake (BSC) partly substituting soya bean cake at 20% for starter and finisher phases respectively. Data collected were analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA), and significant means were separated using Least Significant Difference (LSD). The results of the growth performance at the end of the starter phase showed that birds on control diet performed significantly (p<0.05) better than other groups in terms of final weight, weight gain, feed cost per kg gain and feed conversion ratio. Protein efficiency ratio was significantly (p<0.05) better for birds fed diets containing SBC and GNC. At finisher phase, birds on SBC and GNC had similar (p>0.05) performance in final weight, weight gain and feed conversion ratio. Digestibility of all nutrients was higher (p<0.05) for birds on RSC diet. Famers can partly substitute SBC with GNC at 20% in finisher diet for improved performance, to reduce production cost and to increase profit.
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