Abstract:
The study was conducted to evaluate the nutritive value of
locally produced fishmeal .
A total of "120" day old , unsexed commercial chicks were
used for this study . the experiment was inform of completely
randomized design . Chicks were allotted randomly to three
treatments ( 40 birds / treatment ) with four replicates( 10 birds/
replicate) . The birds were fed for six weeks .
The three diets were formulated to be isonitrogenous ( 23%
curude protein ) and isocaloric ( 3.100 Kcal / Kg) metabolizable
energy .The control diet contain super concentrate, the other
fishmeal with or with out lysine and methionine supplementation.
Health of the stock and performance parameters were
recorded . Results obtained showed that chicks fed fishmeal only
have significantly ( p < 0.05 ) consumed less feed intake compared
to chicks fed diets contain super concentrate , this condition was
the same for the body growth rate .
The addition of lysine and methionine to the diet containing
fishmeal improved feed intake and growth rate to a level less than
that containing super concentrate .
The result showed that feed conversion ratio has no
significant difference ( p > 0.05 ) among the tested treatments.
