INTERNAL ORGANS WEIGHT OF BROILER CHICKEN FED GRADED LEVELS OF SUNDRIED CASSAVA PEELS MEALSAS A REPLACEMENT OF WHEAT BRAN

Abstract

A study was conducted to evaluate internal organs of broiler chicken fed graded levels of cassava peels meal as a replacement for wheat bran. A total of 144 day old broiler chicks of Abore acre breeds were assigned to 4 experimental diets in a completely randomized design. The birds were fed graded levels (0, 10, 20, and 30% at the finisher phase and were tagged as T1, T2 T3, and T4 respectively). On day 56 of the experiment, three birds per treatment were randomly selected from each of the replicates; starved overnight, slaughtered, eviscerated and internal organs were weighed with sensitive scale. There were no significant (p>0.05) differences among internal organs weight (heart, liver, kidney, spleen, whole gizzard etc). It can be concluded that farmers can replace wheat bran with sundried cassava peels on meal the broiler chicken diets without detrimental to the internal organs weight of the broiler chicken