Nutritive Value And Enzyme Supplementation Of Sorghum Brewer S Waste In Broiler Diets

📄 Project Abstract

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the nutritive value and enzyme supplementation of sorghum brewers waste (SBW) in broiler diets. In Experiment I, 225 one-week old broiler chickens with an average initial live weight of 73g were fed diets containing graded levels of SBW. There were five dietary treatments for both starter and finisher phases. The treatments were replicated three times with fifteen birds per replicate and a total of forty five birds per treatment in a completely randomized design. Treatments 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 contained 0, 10, 20, 30 and 40% SBW, respectively. Results showed that at the starter phase, there were no significant differences (P>0.05) among the treatments up to 40% SBW while the finisher birds performed better in terms of final weight and weight gain up to 30% level of inclusion. Digestibility of crude protein and crude fibre were better up to 20% and were similar to those fed 30% inclusion of SBW. Dietary treatments had significant (P<0.05) effect o...