EFFECT OF DIETARY ENERGY AND PROTEIN LEVELS ON PERFORMANCE AND READY-TO-COOK YIELD OF WHITE LEGHORN MALE CHICKS
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1981
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Abstract
The increased demand for egg-type punet chicks in the recent
years has resulted in the stagnation of the male chicks at hatcheries.
However, discarding the male chicks at day old stage will cause
huge monetary loss for the Poultry Industry. Hence profitable
means of raising these surplus male chicks have been attt?lllpted by
many workers (Haque and Agarwala 1975, Taylor et (/1, 1975.
Haleem et al. 1978, and Narahari et al 1980). It is well known that male
chicks grow faster than females and the nutrient requirements may
differ in order to g>!t maximum growth at particular age. No
standard recommendations are available pertaining to dietary protein
and metabolizable energy requirements of these birds for profitable
meat production. Hence an experiment was conducted to study the
effect of feeding different dietary levels of crude protein and metabolizable
energy on performance and economics of White Leghorn
male chicks.
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TNV_CRN_1981_10(1)261-267
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Veterinary Science