Abstract:
The current study was conducted to examine the effect of sheep and camel fat on
broiler performance. Twenty eight day-old unsexed broiler chicks (Ross 308) were
randomly selected and distributed into three finisher diet treatment groups (100
chicks per treatment) with 4 replicates of 25 birds each. The birds were fed on the
diets for 3 weeks. The finisher diet treatments were control which contained 0%
fat; treatment two contained 3%sheep fat while treatment three contained 3%
camel fat. Live body weight, body weight gain, feed consumption, feed conversion
ratio, protein efficiency ratio, lysine efficiency ratio, efficiency of energy
utilization, water consumption, relative water consumption٫ production efficiency
factor, carcass characteristics and blood cholesterol level were determined. High
significant values (p<0.01) were obtained in live body weight, body weight gain,
carcass weight٫ water consumption ٫ feed conversion ratio ٫lysine efficiency ratio
and production efficiency factor for the birds fed sheep and camel fat based diet
compared to the control group gave the pest results. Dressing% and blood serum
cholesterol showed significant difference (p<0.05). No significant differences were
found in feed consumption, efficiency of energy utilization and protein efficiency
ratio due to diet treatment. The study concluded that feeding sheep and camel fat
based diets improved broiler performance.
