The potential of the housefly maggot as a source of crude protein in the diet of broiler chickens
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https://doi.org/10.56286/a7b1mv15Keywords:
Broiler Chicken, Crude protein, Housefly, MaggotAbstract
This study aimed to determine the effect of maggot meal inclusion in feed for broilers on their growth rate and weight gain. A total of thirty (30) day-old broiler chicks were randomly allocated into two groups of 15 each. One group was fed with commercial feed, while the second group was fed with self-formulated feed compounded with the housefly maggot as a source of crude protein. The experiment lasted for six (6) Weeks, and feed and water were offered ad libitum for 42 Days. The average live weight gain (2284.20 g/bird) observed in the commercial diet group was not significantly different from the self-formulated diet treatment group (2042.20 g/birds) (P>0.05). The P value (0.001) was found to be a significant relationship between the feed conversion ratio and the grouping. However, there is no significance found in the relationship between time (p-value = 0.11) and the treatment given. Cost evaluation Table revealed the maggot inclusion self-formulated diet had the least feed cost/kg gain of 320 units at the starter phase and 160 units at the finisher phase, as against 672 units and 336 units for commercial diets at starter and finisher phases, respectively. Cost evaluation also revealed that the self-formulated diet was cheaper to compound and had the lowest cost
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