Growth Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Broiler Finisher Fed Different Cereal Grain By-Products
Abstract
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of broiler finisher chickens fed different cereal grain by-products. Five experimental diets were formulated to contain MO, SO, WO, MIO and BDG at 15% levels of inclusion represented as T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5. One hundred and fifty Amor broiler chickens were randomly allotted to five dietary treatment groups in a completely randomized designed. Each treatment was replicated three times with ten birds per replicate. Result obtained showed that feed intake was not significantly (p >0.05) different among treatment groups except weight gain and feed conversion ratio. T1 (1315.44g/birds) and T2 (1279.60g/birds) had the higher values and T5 (1142.96) recorded the lowest. Live weight and carcass yield showed no significant (p>0.05) different except dressing percentage. T1 (69.51) had the highest value while T3 (62.73) and T5 (61.31) recorded the lowest. Based on the study, it can be concluded that cereal grain by-product can be included into the broiler finisher chickens diets at 15% level without deleterious effect on growth performance and carcass yield as it gave a promising result.
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