Ahaotu EO
J. Vet. Res. Adv., 07 (01):21-27
Ahaotu EO: Department of Animal Science, University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Nigeria
Article History: Received on: 15-Dec-24, Accepted on: 19-Apr-25, Published on: 23-Apr-25
Corresponding Author: Ahaotu EO
Email: emmanuel.ahaotu@uaes.edu.ng
Citation: Ahaotu EO, Simeon-Ahaotu VC and Herasymenko NV (2025). Evaluation of groundnut shell meal (GSM) on performance and haematological indices of finisher broilers. J. Vet. Res. Adv., 07 (01):21-27
Aim:
Purpose of the study was to evaluate of groundnut shell meal (GSM) on
performance and haematological indices of finisher broilers.
Method
and materials: The study
involved 150 mixed sexed broiler finisher birds divided into five groups of 50
each. The control treatment T0 had no groundnut shell meal while the
other four treatments included replacement of groundnut shell meal with palm
kernel cake at 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 and 10 % (T0, T2.5, T5,
T7.5 and T10 respectively). All treatments had the same
calculated levels of crude protein and metabolisable energy contents.
Results:
Results
showed no evidence of effect of treatments on feed efficiency (p> 0.05).
However, there was evidence that feed intake, live weight gain, average final
live weight of birds receiving the control diet T0 were lower than
those with 10% substitution level of
palm kernel cake (p<0.05). There was evidence that carcasses of
chickens fed the T5 diet were lower (p<0.05) than those fed T10
but similar to T0 and T7.5 (p> 0.05). T10
proved to be the most profitable diet.
Conclusion: It was concluded
that the groundnut shell meal supplementation in broiler
diets could be effectively utilized at 5% to obtain reasonably good growth rate
and reduced disease infection risk in the finished broiler birds.
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