Diet dilution with different levels of ground wood sheaving at early age on digestive tract lengths and weights, dressing percentage and carcass characteristics of broiler cobb-300

M. Ibrahim, B.; F. Khdair, Sh.

	Diet dilution with different levels of ground wood sheaving at early age on digestive tract lengths and weights, dressing percentage and carcass characteristics of broiler cobb-300
Al-Anbar Journal of Veterinary Sciences
Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 12-21 PDF (148.95 K)
Authors
B. M. Ibrahim; Sh. F. Khdair
Abstract
This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of diet dilution with different levels of ground wood sheaving on digestive tract lengths and weights, dressing percentage and carcass characteristics at early age of broiler chicken (4 -14 d). Using 450, unsexed one-day old broiler chicks of cobb -300. reared together as one group for the first 3 days, after that, birds were divided randomly into 6 treatments with 3 replicates and 25 chicks in each replicate. First group was regarded as control group (c) fed on control diet, where as the remaining groups (T1 – T5) were fed on diets diluted with ground wood sheaving at levels of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50% of the control diet respectively. Results showed significant improvement in relative lengths and weights of digestive tract at increase levels of dilution with ground wood sheaving in ration at age 14 days. Relative weight of abdominal fat was reduced significantly just in T3 and non-significantly in other groups on 56 days old. On the other hand, dressing percentage, relative weight of edible internal parts and carcass cuts did not differ significantly among groups. In conclusion, the dilution of diet with ground wood sheaving led to improved dressing percentage, carcass characteristics and decrease in abdominal fat. This results refer best characteristics of broiler carcasses.

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