Published 2015
“…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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