Department of Animal Science, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria; Department of Agriculture, Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria
Mohammed, A.A., Department of Animal Science, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria; Habiba, M., Department of Animal Science, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria; Mukhtar, I., Department of Agriculture, Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria
This research was carried out to evaluate the growth performance of Hubbard strain broiler birds fed whole pearl millet based diets supplemented with Detoxizyme® and phytogenics. Two hundred birds were used in the starter phase while One hundred and eighty birds were used in the finisher phase. There were five dietary treatments in each of the phases and each of the treatments had four replicates. Treatment 1 served as the control diet without any additive; Detoxizyme® 50g/100Kg diet (DT50), 500g garlic/100Kg diet (GR500), 500g/100Kg diet ginger (GG500) and mixture of 250g garlic and 250g ginger (GR250+GG250) where added as additives in treatments 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively.Birds on the control diet had higher final weight than birds fed GR500 and GG500. Feed intake, feed conversion ratio and cost of feed per kg gain were not different among diets. No mortality was observed. The finisher experiment showed that the growth performance of the chickens was not different across the treatment means except for the feed intake. Feed intake was higher in broiler finisher chickens on the control diet. © 2014, Fundacion CIPAV. All right reserved.