ABSTRACT

A total of eighty (80) day-old unsexed boilers of the Anak strain were procured from a commercial hatchery. The experimental design was a Completely Randomized Design (CRD). A total of four diets having percentage crude protein which ranged between 19.00% and 20.35% and caloric densities of 2743.60 and 2764.30Kcal/Kg were formulated. Maize and maize offal were the major energy sources, while Danish fish meal, soya bean meal, blood meal, local fish meal and rumen wastes were the major protein sources. Diet I , designated the control, contained no local fish meal, blood meal or rumen wastes while diets 2, 3 and 4 contained local fish meal, blood meal and rumen wastes respectively 0f all the performance parameters considered during the trial, only the mean final body weight showed significant difference (P<0.05). The birds led diet 3 gave the highest mean final body weight (685g), closely followed by the birds fed diet 4 (677.50g). Birds fed diet I gave the least value (632.50g). The mean daily feed intake and the mean daily weight gain of the birds showed no significant difference (P>0.05). The test ingredients are comparable, and from the fore going, any of them can be used as substitutes for Danish fish meal which is expensive and often unavailable.