Khadiga Abbas Abdelati
Department of Animal Nutrition, Faculty of Animal Production,University of Khartoum, P.O. Box 71, Khartoum, Sudan
Hashim Abdel Rahman Mohammed
Department of Animal Nutrition, Faculty of Animal Production,University of Khartoum, P.O. Box 71, Khartoum, Sudan
Mohamed Elamin Ahmed
School of Animal Production, Faculty of Agricultural Technology and Fish Sciences,Alneelain University, P.O. Box 12702, Khartoum, Sudan
ABSTRACT
This experiment was conducted to assess the effect of feeding different processed pigeon pea seeds on broilers performance. Four isocaloric and iso-nitrogenous diets containing (10%) of soaked pigeon pea seeds, decorticated with added enzyme (multi enzymes with high content of pentosanase), decorticated roasted and control diet were formulated. Parameters measured weekly were feed intake, body weight gain and Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR). Overall body weight, hot carcass weight and dressing percentage were recorded. Results revealed that inclusion of 10% soaked pigeon pea seed, decorticated with added enzyme (multi enzyme with a high content of pentosanase) and decorticated roasted had no significant (p>0.05) effects on feed intake, weight gain, feed conversion ratio, final live body weight, hot carcass weight and dressing percentage. Inclusion of 10% processed pigeon pea seeds resulted in a similar performance of broiler chicks when compared with the control group.
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Khadiga Abbas Abdelati, Hashim Abdel Rahman Mohammed and Mohamed Elamin Ahmed, 2009. Influence of Feeding Processed Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan) Seeds on Broiler Chick Performance. International Journal of Poultry Science, 8: 971-975.
DOI: 10.3923/ijps.2009.971.975
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ijps.2009.971.975
DOI: 10.3923/ijps.2009.971.975
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ijps.2009.971.975
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