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Abstract:
This study was conducted from December 07, 2011 to January 06, 2012 at the poultry house of JRMSU- Tampilisan Campus, covering a period of 30 days. It was specifically conducted to determine the effect of the different levels of sargassum meal on the growth performance and meat quality of broiler. It also simed to determine which among levels of supplementation would give the best result. The treatment used in the study were: T1-no sargassum, T2-5% sargassum meal, T3-10% sargassum meal, T4- 15% sargassum meal. The 20 heads of expiremental birds were fed with commercial ration added with different levels of sargassum meal as designed in the study and adopted the Complete Randomized Design (CRD). The growth performance of the expiremental birds were evaluated in terms of initial weights. Weights were also taken at every 10 day interval, final and gain in weights. After taking the initial weights, statistical analysis revealed that the birds were homogenous. The average weight of the birds taken in every 10 day's interval, in relation to its final and gain weights were not affected significant by the different levels of sargassum meal as feeds supplement on their commercial ration. The meat quality of the expiremental birds were also evaluated in terms of Odor, Taste/Flavor, Tenderness, Texture and Over-all acceptability. It showed that the quality were Moderately Desirable Odor in Treatment 1, 4 and 3 with the numerical rating of 3.61, 3.47 and 3.44 for Treatment 2- 3.28 ( Just Normal Odor).??
Objectives:
1. To determine the effect of the different levels of sargassum meal on the growth performance and meat quality of broiler. 2. It also simed to determine which among levels of supplementation would give the best result.
Methods:
Complete Randomized Design (CRD)
Findings and Results:
1. The different levels of sargassum meal as feed supplement to commercial mash insignificantly affected the growth performance of broiler chicken. 2. Supplementation of sargassum meal at different levels as feed additive, insignificantly affected the odor, taste / favor, texture and over-all acceptability. 3. The feed conversion ratio was not analyzed statistically, since the birds were not fed individually. However, mathematically the most efficient feed convert into meat was obtained by birds in Treatment 3, 10% sargassum meal with a weighted average of 2.16:1 followed by birds in Treatment 4, 2 and 1 with 2.23:1, 2.24:1 and 2.28:1 respectively. 4. The return on capital invested for T1, T2, T3 and T4 are 18.03, 21.12, 24.60 and 21.71 percent respectively. The over-all ROC 21.37 indicating that there project had a profit.
Conclusion:
The result of the study revealed that supplement of the different levels of sargassum meal had no significant effect on the growth performance and meat quality except on tenderness that showed significant difference among treatment means. However, expiremental birds supplemented with 10% sargassum meal obtained the highest average final weight indicated that it had better economic benefit.
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