THE EFFECT OF REPLACING MAIZE WITH HIGH QUALITY CASSAVA PEEL ON STARTER PHASE GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF BROILER CHICKENS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51791/njap.vi.5865Keywords:
HQCP, broilers, FCR, body weight changes, FBW, DWGAbstract
A feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of replacing maize with High Quality Cassava Peel (HQCP) on the starter phase growth performance of broiler chicken. The experiment took place at the Teaching and Research Farm of Ekiti State Polytechnic, Isan-Ekiti, and it lasted 21 days. A total of 150 day old chicks (Arbor acre strain) were brooded for a week before being randomly allotted to five experimental treatments in a completely randomized design, such that treatment (T1) served as control with 100% maize, while T2, T3, T4 and T5 had 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% HQCP
replacement of maize. Each experimental treatment was replicated three times with 10 birds each. Parameters measured included the daily feed intake (DFI), daily weight gain (DWG), feed conversion ratio (FCR), final body weight (FBW) and mortality. The results showed significant (P<0.05) difference on the FBW, DWG and FCR. T1, T2 and T3- had the highest FBW, DWG and FCR, which are statistically similar and statistically difference from T4 and T5. The least FBW, DWG and FCR
were recorded from T5 as 745.51g, 14.7g and 3.18 respectively. It was concluded that replacement of maize up to 50% with high quality cassava peel (HQCP) in broiler starter diets improved growth performance.
