CARCASS AND GUT CHARACTERISTICS OF BROILER CHICKEN FED VARYING LEVELS OF PARTIALLY SPROUTED BAMBARANUT

A. Umar, U.D. Doma, & K.M. Bello

Animal Production Programme,

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria

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ABSTRACT

The effect of feeding broiler chicken with varying levels of partially sprouted bambaranut on the carcass and gut characteristics was investigated. Five diets were formulated in which partially sprouted bambaranut was included at 0, 10, 20, 30 and  40% replacing soybean and coded as diets 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively. Two hundred day old marshal unsexed broiler chicks were randomly allocated to five dietary treatments in a completely randomized design and each of the treatment was replicated three times. Results showed that live weight and carcass parameters such plucked weight, eviscerated weight and carcass weight all differs significantly (p<0.001) with diet 5 recording the highest weight, whereas dressing %,kidney, spleen, heart, gizzard, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine, abdominal fat, caecal, liver, head and leg weight did not differ significantly (p<0.05). The study therefore reveals that using partially sprouted bambaranut has no adverse effect on the carcass and gut characteristics of broiler chickens.