| dc.description.abstract | The present study was designed to determine nutritional composition and
investigate the effect and economic value of hydroponic maize and sesbania
sprouted fodder replaced by commercial concentrate feed (CCF) on growth
performances of turkey. The study was conducted at the Advance Animal
Research Farm of Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science, Hajee
Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU), Dinajpur,
Bangladesh. A total of 48 (8- wks-old) turkeys were randomly assigned into
four dietary treatment (T1, T2, T3, T4) groups where each group consisting of
3 replications having 4 birds in each. T1 considered as control group fed only
CCF where T2, T3 and T4 denoted groups of turkeys fed the diet comprising
of 90, 70 and 60% CCF and 10, 30, 40% hydroponic sprouted fodders,
respectively. The ratio of hydroponic maize and sesbania sprouted fodders
were 80 and 20, 70 and 30, 60 and 40%, respectively. The percentage of
moisture, dry matter (DM), ash, organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP),
crude fibre (CF), ether extract (EE) and nitrogen free extract (NFE) on dry
matter basis contents of hydroponic maize and sesbania sprouted fodder
was 85.21 & 90.54, 14.79 & 9.46, 2.50 & 3.41, 97.5 & 96.6, 10.92 &
37.26, 5.30 & 7.21, 2.94 & 3.71, 78.34 & 48.41, respectively. The ash, CP
and CF (%) were significantly higher (P< 0.01) in hydroponic sesbania than
maize sprouted fodder but the NFE (%) was significantly higher (P< 0.01) in hydroponic maize than sesbania sprouted fodder. The results revealed that
dietary supplementation of hydroponic maize and sesbania sprouted fodder
replaced by commercial concentrate feed increased live weight in T2 (2.83)
than T1, T3 and T4 (2.64, 2.39 & 2.09), respectively, live weight gain T2
(20.61) than T1, T3 and T4 (18.39, 15.55 & 12.07), respectively and highest
FCE observed in T1 (5.26) and lowest as well as best FCE observed in T2
(4.03) group of turkey. On the other hand, the cost effective analysis showed
higher benefit in T2 than other T1, T3 and T4 groups. Therefore, dietary
supplementation of CCF replaced by hydroponic maize and sesbania
sprouted fodder at 10% level may improve live weight, feed efficiency of
turkey as well as reduce total cost of feed. | en_US |
