FEEDING TRAIL AND ECONOMIC OF BROILER FINISHER FED VITAL FEED AND SOME AGRO-BY PRODUCTS
Danwe A.B, Christopher G, Adamu F, Liman A.A, Aishatu F, Elizabeth F. and Ayi A.
Department of Animal Production,
College of Agriculture Jalingo, Taraba State Nigeria.
Email: danweaugustine@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The research was experimented to study
the economic and performance of broiler finisher on vital feed and graded
levels of some agro-by products. The experimental birds used were sixty (60) in
number aged five weeks, were assigned to four treatments in a completely randomized
design replicated thrice with fifteen (15) birds per treatment. Diet T1,
was a control diet of 100% VF while diets T2, T3 and T4
were mixed with some agro-by products of 40% SC, 40% CHP and 40% CH
respectively. The findings shows that the total final, average and total daily
body weight were significant at (p>0.01). While average daily body weights,
total daily feed intake average daily feed intake, and feed conversion ratio
were significant at (p>0.05). Then the cost savings (Nkg) in which the Economic analysis was purposely experimented was
best on T4, T3 and T2 with (N330kg), (N290/kg) and (N250%/kg) respectively, and poorest on control diet
with (N0.00k/kg). The carcass characteristics were significant (p>0.05) on
carcass weight, heads weight, sharisk weight and gizards weight while other are
not significant (p>0.05%). Agro-by products such as cowpea husk and sorghum
chaft could be incorporated into poultry feeds to reduce cost of poultry feeds.
Keywords:Effective broiler production, bridging animal protein, maximize profit, self-employment, agro-by products
