Evaluation of Blood-Vegetable Waste Meal Fed with or Without Grit to Broilers
Habiba Z, Adedeji MO, Duweni T and Adeniji AA
Published: November 01, 2021.
Abstract
A total of one hundred and eighty (180) day old broiler chicks were used to evaluate the effect of blood vegetable waste meal with or without grit supplementation on the performance of broilers. The diets formulated had three inclusion levels of BVWM at 0, 7.5, and 15%, fed with two supplementation levels (with or without grit). The experimental animals were randomly distributed into six (6) dietary treatments. There were three replicates per treatment and ten (10) birds per replicate. Feed and water were provided ad-libitum while standard poultry managements were strictly followed during the study. Data on different performance such as average daily fee intake, average daily weight gain and feed conversion ratio. It was a 3X2 factorial experiment in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The experiment lasted for a period of 8 weeks. The result showed that the experimental diet had significant effect on the final weight gain, daily feed intake, weight gain, feed conversion ratio, cost of feed per kg and profitability. The interaction between the varying level of supplementation and no supplementation had significant effect (P<0.05) on feed to gain ratio, but showed no significant difference in final weight, daily feed intake. This study shows that broilers fed 15% inclusion level of blood vegetable waste meal supplemented with grit at 5% had better performance when compared to 0% and 5% inclusion.