Haematological, organs and performance response of cockerel chicks fed urea-treated and fermented brewer’s dried grains diets as replacement for groundnut cake

Isikwenu, J.O. (2012) Haematological, organs and performance response of cockerel chicks fed urea-treated and fermented brewer’s dried grains diets as replacement for groundnut cake. American Journal of Food and Nutrition , 2 (1). pp. 125-6.

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Abstract

The effect of replacing groundnut cake with urea-treated and fermented brewer’s dried grains at 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% graded levels in cockerel chicks at 0 – 8weeks of age was investigated. Five diets were formulated to be isonitrogenous and isocaloric to provide 20% crude protein and 2684.06 Kcal/kg metabolizable energy. Three hundred day old cockerel chicks (Isa Brown breed) were randomly allocated to five treatment groups replicated thrice with 20 cockerel chicks per replicate, fed and watered ad libitum in deep litter pens for 8 weeks. There were significant (P > 0.05) differences in mean body weights, daily weight gain, feed intake, feed conversion ratio, haematological indices and organ weights of cockerel chicks fed the control and urea-treated and fermented BDG diets. Cockerel chicks fed the control diet were significant (P>0.05) better in weight performance. Organs weight response were similar to body weight gain pattern.

Item Type: Article
Author Affiliation: Department of Animal Science, Delta State University, Asaba Campus, Delta State, Nigeria
Subjects: Postharvest Management
Divisions: Groundnut
Depositing User: Mr. SanatKumar Behera
Date Deposited: 25 Sep 2012 13:07
Last Modified: 25 Sep 2012 13:08
Official URL: http://www.scihub.org/AJFN/2-1-Mar2012.html
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/8105

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