Bharathidhasan ATensinghGnanaraj PEzhilvalavan STANUVAS2024-08-072024-08-072022https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810212990Desi birds are valuable natural resources for each country for their adaptability to harsh climatic conditions and resistance against diseases. They perform well with high fibre diets and it has better feed efficiency even with diets having low energy and protein from locally available feed ingredients. Hence, an experiment was conducted to study the effect of feeding pulse processing waste on weight gain, feed intake and feed efficiency of desi birds for a period of eight weeks from 10-17th week’s age. One fifty growing desi birds at 10th week age were randomly divided into five experimental diets (0, 10 %, 20 %, 30 % and 40 % pulse processing waste) with three replicates of 10 birds each fed with iso-calorie and iso-nitrogenous diets. All birds were fed with weighed quantity of pulse processing waste added feed and adlibitam quantity of water and reared with standard manage mental practices. The feed intake was measured daily and weight gain was obtained in weekly interval. The feed efficiency was calculated and the economics was also worked out. A non significant difference was observed in weight gain, feed intake and feed efficiency among pulse processing waste supplemented groups. The cumulative weekly weight gain, feed intake and feed efficiency were also not differed among pulse processing waste supplemented groups.EnglishOther