1. Biologic and Economic Performance of Broiler Chickens Fed Cassava Root Meal 'Garri' as a Substitute for Maize
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Ebele E.A, G.S. Ojewola, and Olojede. A.O
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Meal ,Animal science ,Agronomy ,medicine ,Broiler ,food and beverages ,medicine.symptom ,Biology ,Weight gain ,Completely randomized design - Abstract
56days experiment was carried out to study the effect of substituting dietary maize with graded levels of cassava root meal “Garri” in broiler chicken diet. The percentage dietary maize in the diet was gradually substituted with cassava root meal at 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, and 100% respectively in a Completely Randomized Design. Two hundred and twenty (220) day-old unsexed broiler chicks were randomly assigned to the treatments. Each treatment consists of 20 chicks replicated twice with 10 chicks per replicate. Mean weight gain and feed-to-gain ratio of birds fed diets 1 and 2 were significantly (P 0.05) influenced, but others were. Valuesobtained were also within the range reported for healthy birds. The cost variables were significantly (P
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- 2016
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