AN EVALUATION OF RAW AND COOKED WHOLE SOYABEAS FOR BROILERS

Abstract

Two hunared day old broiler chicks were alloted to five treatment groups to evaluate the effect of whole soyabean and fish meal supplementation on productivity of the experimental birds. Feed consump­tion and weight gains were similar on diets 1 ^-and 3, while feed efficiency and protein efficiency ratio were better (P<0.05) on the cooked soyabean diet 3 as compared to the groundnut cake based (control) ration. Fish meal supplementation also unproved performance. The raw soyabean diet gave the poorest performance Metaboli­zable energy was bigher (P < 0.05) on cooked soyabean (diet 3) than the ground­nut cake based ration. Carcass characteristics, were similar on the control and cooked soyabean based rations when supplemented with fish meal. The cost of feed per kg. live weight gained was least on cooked soyabean and highest on raw soyabean based rations.