Nutritive Value Of Danish Fish Meal, Crayfish Dust Meal And Shrimp Waste Meal In Broiler Diets:- Annah, Sonia I.

ABSTRACT

Nutritional evaluation of the effect of Danish imported fishmeal, crayfish dust meal and shrimp waste meal as animal protein sources in broiler ration was carried out using 144-day-old broiler chicks in a completely randomized design experiment. This lasted for seven weeks. The 144-unsexed chicks of Anak strato the birds. Proximate analysis showed that the test ingredients fishmeal, crayfish 61.34%, 65.27% and 46.20%. The gross energy observed were 2614 kcal/kg, 3625 (P>0.05) in the total feed intake amongst birds fed diets, 1 (3651.60g), 2 (4017.30g), 3 (3697.50), 4 (3821.00g), 5(4029.30g) and 6(3932.60g). The feed -to not significantly different (P>0.05) among birds fed the different i dietary treatment. Diet 4 had the best (2.05). The total weight gain observed in birds fed diet 4(1925.00g) 6(11 50.00g) were also similar to those fed diet 5(1800.00). The back cavity and ix I were randomly allocated to 6 dietary treatments, each having 2 replications of 12 gain ratio were kcal/kg and 2982 kcal/kg in that same order. There was no significant difference were similar to those fed diet 2 (1900.00g) and diet g 1 dust meal and shrimp waste meal respectively had a crude protein content of were randomly allocated to 6 dietary treatments, each having 2 replications of 12 in chicks per replicate. The diets were designated as diets 1, 2,3,4,5 and 6. Diet 1 (control) had 6% Danish fishmeal, while others respectively contained 6% crayfish dust meal, 6% shrimp waste meal, 3% each of crayfish dust meal and shrimp waste meal, 3% each of Danish fishmeal and crayfish dust meal and 3% each of Danish fishmeal and shrimp waste meal. Each diet was offered ad-libitum