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REPLACING MAIZE WITH PALM OIL SLUDGE IN BROILER CHICKEN DIETS: EFFECT ON CARCASS CHARACTERISTICS, ORGAN WEIGHT AND MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT (Pages : 1 - 5)
A. O. BOBADOYE, G. E. ONIBI, A. N. FAJEMISIN, O. O. OLASUPO AND B. O. BOBADOYEThe study investigate the effect of replacing 10, 20, 30 and 40% of the energy supplied by maize in a control diet with energy from palm oil sludge on carcass characteristics, organ weight and muscle development of broiler chickens. A total of 200 shaver starbo day old broiler chicks were used for the experiment. The birds were randomly allocated to 5 treatments at 10 birds per replicate and 4 replicate per dietary treatment. The experiment lasted 8weeks. At the end of the experiment, 3 birds per replicate were sacrificed for sample collection. The result showed that apart from the belly fat content which increased with increase levels of palm oil sludge in the diets (P<0.5), other parameters for carcass characteristics were not significantly influenced (P>0.05) by the dietary treatments. There was no significant influence (P>0.05) of the dietary treatment on all the organs measured. The relative length and breadth of the breast muscles, the thigh muscle weight and the drumstick muscle weight were not significantly influenced (P>0.05) by the dietary treatment. However, the inner breast muscle and outer breast muscle weight were significantly different (P<0.05). Download