Replacing soybean meal with roasted guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) korma in broiler chicken diet

Roasted guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) korma is a by product of guar gum industry left after removal of gum, contains high protein and low gum. An experiment of six week period was designed to assess the feeding value of guar korma in straight run (cobb400) broiler chicks (n=400), distributed randomly into twenty group of four each. Five experimental diets were formulated for pre starter (0–14 d), starter (15–28 d) and finisher (29–42 d) period incorporating 8 and 12% roasted guar korma replacing soybean meal (on part basis) with or without supplementation of enzyme (β-mannanase-@ 0.5 g/kg of diet). The diets were formulated based on maize-soybean meal; each diet was offered to four replicate groups of twenty birds each ad libitum. The results revealed that body weight gain, feed conversion ratio and immune response of broiler birds did not significantly (P>0.05) differ among different dietary treatments. It was concluded that roasted guar Korma can replace soybean meal safely and economically in commercial broiler diets up to 12% level.