Study on utilization of mild extruded water-soaked leucaena leaves and cassava in combination with sorghum or cassava for broiler diets
1989
Uthai Cuntho | Wanwipa Kaen-ampan | Sukanya Jattupornpong (Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Agriculture. Dept. of Animal Science)
Effects of mild extruded water-soaked leucaena mixed cassava meal (MEWSLCM) at 10 or 20 percents in sorghum or cassava based broiler diets were studied using 450 broilers aged 3 weeks. The animals were divided into groups of 3 subgroups each. Each sub-group contained 25 broilers. Each group of the animal was randomly fed experimental diet as following. Diet 1 and 2: Corn+MEWSLCM at 10 and 20 %, respectively and Diet 3 and 4: Sorghum+MEWSLCM at 10 and 20 %, respectively and Diet 5 and 6: Cassava meal+MEWSLCM at 10 and 20 %, respectively. Performances of broiler fed sorghum and cassava diet including 10 and 20 percents of MEWSLCM were lower than those fed corn diets, however, the differences were not statistically significant except the body weight gains. Increasing level of MEWSLCM in the diets linearly decreased performances of the broiler but the differences were not significant. There were no differences in carcass characteristic of broilers fed the experimental diets. Inclusion of MEWSLCM at 20 percents in sorghum and cassava base diets significantly (P0.05) improved shank pigmentation of broilers.
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