FEEDING TRAIL AND ECONOMIC OF BROILER FINISHER FED VITAL FEED AND SOME AGRO-BY PRODUCTS

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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