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International Journal of Poultry Science

Year: 2005 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 1 | Page No.: 11-15
DOI: 10.3923/ijps.2005.11.15
Physicochemical Content, Metabolizable Energy and In-vitro Protein Digestibility of Wheat Screening Diet on Growth Rate of Broiler
A. A. Saki and A. Alipana

Abstract: In competitions by monogastric animal particular in poultry by consumption human food sources, high attempt should be made to find out new sources of feed that is not consumed by human. Wheat screening is one of the these sources of feed which need to be considered. Determination of physicochemical content, metabolizable energy (ME) and protein digestibility may lead to elucidate the quality of this feed as well as arrangement in feed formulation of broiler ration. Physical content of two types of wheat screening (W. S.) were tested by seed sorting system (grad 1 and 2), lots of straw, sand, dust, soil and none cereal seed were observed in wheat screening grads 2 compared with wheat screening grade 1. In addition 80% of wheat screening includes wheat screening grads 1 which content less Straw, soil, sand and none cereal seed. Otherwise metabolizable energy which was estimated by Sibbaled method was significantly higher (P<0.05), In W. S. grad 1 (2992.51 kcal/kg) than grad 2 (2212.72 kcal/kg). Based on these finding wheat screening grads 1 was selected for broiler feeding. Crude protein and crude fibre (11.4 and 4.14%) respectively in chemical composition of wheat screening grad 1 were determined by AOAC method. In-vitro protein digestibility 81.7% and digestible energy 2352.73 kcal/kg in wheat screening grad 1 were quiet desirable which evaluated by Fuller method. The effect of wheat screening grad 1 on growth rate of broiler, was examined by carried out an experiment which includes 320 day old unsexed Ross broiler chicken with (0, 10, 20 and 30% W. S.). No significantly differences were found in daily feed intake (DFI), daily growth rate (DGR), uniformity (UF) and production index (PI) in concern to different levels of wheat screening. The result of this study have shown that, it is possible to use wheat screening grad 1 in broiler ration, but the exact amount of this unconvencial feed source need to be clarify by further investigation.

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A. A. Saki and A. Alipana , 2005. Physicochemical Content, Metabolizable Energy and In-vitro Protein Digestibility of Wheat Screening Diet on Growth Rate of Broiler. International Journal of Poultry Science, 4: 11-15.

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