Evaluation of the performance of broilers fed on dried bovine rumen content and blood meal.

Abstract

This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of broilers fed on diets containing dried bovine. rumen content, blood meal and maize bran mixtures as replacement for commercial broiler feeds. A total of 60 three-week old broiler unsexed chicks were allocated in a completely randomized design and subjected to two dietary treatments for three weeks. The body weight gain, feed conversion ratio and. the, cost of feeding was determined. It was found that there was no statistical difference in weight gain between the group that was fed on experimental ration and the group that was fed on commercial growers mash, feed conversion ratio among the birds in the experimental group was higher, and also had lower feed intake compared to the group that was fed on the commercial growers mash. The cost of feeding the birds on the experimental ration was lower than the cost of feeding the same number of birds on control ration. However, there is need for future research on the effect of DBRCBM on bone formation such that the information may be useful to both local small scale farmers and large scale farmers.