National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
An experiment was conducted in commercial broiler chicks (Vencobb) for a period of six weeks to study the dietary supplementation of valine with respect to Body weight and Cumulative feed consumption, total feed cost per bird (Rs), Total cost of production per kg live weight (Rs), Total income per bird (Rs), Net profit per kg live weight (Rs), Net profit per bird (Rs). These broiler chicks were wing banded, weighed and randomly allotted into five treatment groups with four replicates of ten chicks each and fed with basal diet asT1 (control), T2 (basal diet + 0.04 per cent valine), T3 (basal diet + 0.08 per cent valine), T4 (basal diet + 0.12 per cent valine) and T5 (basal diet + 0.16 per cent valine). The dietary valine supplementation of broiler diet on sixth week body weight revealed no significant difference between treatment groups. Cumulative feed consumption showed significant (P <0.05) difference between treatment groups at sixth weeks of age. The T2 group (basal diet + 0.04 per cent valine) recorded the lowest Production cost per kg live weight(Rs 57.31) and highest Total income per bird(Rs 174.68), Net profit per kg live weight (Rs16.69) and Net profit per bird (Rs39.39). Based upon this study, it is concluded that supplementation of valine in broiler basal diet at the level of 0.04 per cent (T2 group) significantly increased sixth week body weight and Total income per bird, Net profit per kg live weight and Net profit per bird in a cost effective way.
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