Growth performances, carcass yield and meat quality of free range village chickens fed on diet containing dehydrated processed food waste by Shanaghi, Hossein

“…The rations contained processed dehydrated food waste at the rate of 0 (T1), 20 (T2),40 (T3) and 60% (T4). 180 grower female village chickens at four weeks of age with average initial body weight 300±10g (mean ± SD) were randomly distributed to four treatments with three replicates (15 birds per replicate) for grower and finisher rearing periods (grower 5-9 weeks and finisher 10-14 weeks). The four treatment rations formulated were approximately iso-caloric and iso-nutrigenous with 3000 kcal/kg ME and 20% CP for grower period and 3100 kcal/kg ME and 18% CP for finisher period, respectively. …”
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