Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5513/JCEA01/12.1.879
Effects of dietary energy and protein dilution and time of feed replacement from starter to grower on broiler chickens performance
Behrooz AZIZI
; Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran Postal cod: 66177-15175 Tel: +98-9183717052 Fax: +98-918871660070
Ghorbanali SADEGHI
Ahmad KARIMI
Fakhradin ABED
Abstract
An experiment was conducted to study the effects of dietary energy and protein
dilution and time of feed replacement from starter to grower on performance of
broilers with a 2×3 factorial arrangement in a completely randomized design with 480
day-old broilers from 1-42 day of age. Experimental treatments were 5% energy and
protein diluted diets and starter diet was fed to 7, 14 or 21 days and finisher diet was
fed beginning at 35 days. Grower diet was fed for variable times depending upon
termination of feeding starter diet and initiation of finisher diet.
Dilution of both energy and protein had no (P>0.05) significant effect on chicks
performance, but significantly (P<0.05) increased breast meat yield. Reduction the
time of feeding starter diet did not show any significant effects on bird's performance.
From 1-42 days of age, the interaction between dilution of both energy and protein
and changing time from starter to grower diets on body weight and feed intake was
not significant(P<0.05). The results from this study suggest that diluting of both
energy and protein up to 5% from 1-42 days of age and decreasing the time of starter
diet had no adverse effect on broiler chickens performance and it may be beneficial
economically.
Keywords
Energy; Protein; Dilution; Broiler; Starter; Grower
Hrčak ID:
70801
URI
Publication date:
13.7.2011.
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