1Dept. of Animal Nutrition, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Orrisa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar-751003, Odisha, India
2Dept. of Medicine, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Orrisa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar-751003, Odisha, India
Department of Poultry Science, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Orrisa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar-751003, Odisha, India
*Corresponding author: E-mail: Drprabhudutta@gmail.com
Online published on 3 November, 2015.
A study was conducted to find out the effect of supplementation of ginger waste meal on growth performance and carcass characteristics in broiler chicken for 7 weeks. Two hundred forty day old coloured synthetic broiler chicks of either sex were distributed randomly in 4 dietary treatments. Each treatment group had 3 replicates with 20 chicks each. The birds in treatment T1 were given standard ration while ginger waste meal was included @ 5, 10 and 15% in treatments T1, T2 and T3, respectively. Inclusion of ginger waste meal in the diets upto 15% resulted in higher (P<0.05) body weight gain and feed consumption compared to control group, however, feed conversion ratio and carcass characteristics were similar in all the groups.
Ginger waste meal, Broilers, Production performance, Feed efficiency
