THE GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF BROILERS FED ON HOT WATER TREATED SORGHUM

53 PAGES (6298 WORDS) Poultry Production Project

ABSTRACTS

A study was conducted to determine the growth performance of broilers fed on hot water treated sorghum.   50 days old broilers chicks were randomly assigned to five treatment in a completely randomized design.  Each group was further sub divided in to two replicates of 5 bird per replicate, five experimental diet were formulated such that diet I(c) which was screed to the control which contain 100% maize, diet II (W1) which contain 25% of sorghum, diet III (W2) which contain 50% of sorghum, Diet IV (W3) which contain 75% for sorghum and diet V (W4) which contain 100% of sorghum.  Respectively the response parameter evaluated for is the growth performance of broilers fed various treatment diets.  The experiment which was lasted for 3 weeks shows result that bird fed 50% hot water treated white sorghum diet had significantly (P