USE OF LOCAL COMMON VETCH VICIA SATIVA IN POULTRY NUTRITION 1. EFFECT OF PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF SOYBEAN MEAL BY RAW COMMON VETCH ON BROILER PERFORMANCE AND SOME BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF BLOOD.

S. Ibrahim, Ibrahim

doi:10.33899/magrj.2011.28028

	USE OF LOCAL COMMON VETCH VICIA SATIVA IN POULTRY NUTRITION 1. EFFECT OF PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF SOYBEAN MEAL BY RAW COMMON VETCH ON BROILER PERFORMANCE AND SOME BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF BLOOD.
Mesopotamia Journal of Agriculture
Article 16, Volume 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 128-133 PDF (0 K)
DOI: 10.33899/magrj.2011.28028
Author
Ibrahim S. Ibrahim
Abstract
This study was carried out in the farm of Animal Resources dept. University of Mosul. A total of (480) day old chicks were used (cobb 500) in four treatments with two replicates per treatment (40 chicks/rep.). The experimental dietary treatments were T1: 0% vetch (control), T2: 9.4 and 8.3%, T3: 17.3 and 16.5% and T4: 28.1 and 24.8% raw common vetch in the starter and finisher diets resp. All diets were iso-caloric and iso-nitrogenous. The results showed a significant decrease (P≤ 0.05) in everage live body weigh at 8 weeks of age, daily feed consumption also decreased as the level of vetch increased in the diets, birds of T4 showed a significant reduction of dressing percent, packed cell volium, serum total protein, glucose, triglyceride and uric acid. It is also revealed that inclusion of common vetch in the chick diets caused a significant increase in the relative wights of liver, gizzard pancreas and mortality. It is concluded that raw common vetch were not recommended to inclusion in broiler diets.

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