Adamu, M.S. and Kubkomawa, H.I. and Doma, U.D. and Duduwa, A.T. (2012) Carcass and Gut Characteristics of Broilers Fed Diets Containing Yellow Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) Variety in Place of Maize. International Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 4 (1). pp. 8-11.
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Abstract
The study was conducted to evaluate the effects of diets containing graded levels of yellow sorghum variety on carcass and gut characteristics of broilers. In a completely randomized design, two hundred (200) Anak 2000 broiler chicks were allotted to five diets with four replicates of 10 chicks each per diet. In the diets, yellow sorghum replaced maize at 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% levels in diets 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively. The diets and drinking water were provided ad libitum throughout the experiment which lasted for eight weeks. Dressing percentage, weights of Liver, Caeca, Abdominal fat and Pancreas were significantly (P<0.05) affected but there were no significant (P>0.05) dietary effects on other parameters measured. It was concluded that, use of yellow sorghum variety to replace maize up to 75% in broiler diets resulted in increased dressing percentage and weight of pancreas while abdominal fat and caeca weights were decreased. It could therefore, conveniently replace some percentages of maize in broiler diets or any monogastric livestock without any adverse effects on growth performance with low cost of feed per kg which in turn results in economic gain to the farmers and up lifting their standard of living.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Department Of Animal Health And Production Technology Federal Polytechnic,Adamawa State-Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Plant Production |
| Divisions: | Sorghum Maize |
| Depositing User: | Library ICRISAT-InfoSAT |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2012 13:52 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2012 13:53 |
| Official URL: | http://idosi.org/ijsa/ijsa4(1)12.htm |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/4977 |
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