Abstract: This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of supplementation of different levels of chitosan on the growth performance parameters and feed intake of fast growing yellow feather Chinese broilers. One hundred and sixty broiler birds at the age of 57 days were randomly assigned to four treatments and one control (eight replicates per treatment with four broilers per replicate). The control diet had no chitosan, and the treatment diets contained 0.005% 0.0125% 0.5% and 0.625% chitosan. They were after one week treatment. The results showed as that compared with the control, body weight, feed efficiency, and weights gain was increase in all chitosan groups, although not much significant. The results showed that the maximum daily weight was higher in group five and lower in one, highest for total feed intake was group three and group two have lower total feed intake, for average feed intake group three was highest and group two was low in feed intake, average weight gain was observed higher in group five and lower was investigated in group two while for FCR group three have higher FCR and group five have lower among all others group. These results suggest that a low level of dietary chitosan diet for broilers tended to have better growth performance.
Keywords: body weight; yellow feather; broiler chickens; chitosan; feed intake; feed conversion.
Title: Effect of different feeding level of chitosan on feed intake and weight gain of yellow feather Chinses Broiler
Author: Muhammad Waseem Birmani, Gaowen, Muhammad Waseem Ghani, Cuiyanfeng, Wenchao Liu, Mei Xiao, Lilong An
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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