Effect of Anaerobic Fermentation/ Lyle treatment and Rousting of Flamboyant Seed (Delonix regia) on Nutrient Digestibility, and Carcass Characteristics of Broilers

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to evaluate Nutrient Digestibility and Carcass characteristics of Broilers following the replacement of groundnut cake (GNC) with anaerobically fermented\lyle treated flamboyant sees meal (AFLTFSM) and roasted flamboyant seed meal (RFSM) at the rate of 5% and 7.5% . One hundred and eighty day-old hubbard broiler chicks were randomly allotted to six dietary treatments each with three replicates. The replicates were designated as T1, T2, T3,T4,T5 and T6. The experimental design used was the completely randomised design. The result showed that dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), crude fibre (CF), ether extract (EE), ash and nitrogen free extract (NFE) were significantly (P<0.05) by the treatment at both phases of the experiment. Apart from DM and CP, all other nutrients were poorly digested at the starter phase of the experiment while there was an improvement in nutrient Digestibility at the finisher phase. Live weight, slaughter weight, head, crop, intestines and lungs were also affected (P<0.05) by treatment diets. It was concluded that anaerobically fermented/Lyle treated flamboyant seed meal and roasted flamboyant seed meal has potential of being used as a feed ingredient in broiler production.