COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PELLET AND MASH FEED ON THE PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE OF SONALI CHICKEN

Abstract

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of Mash feed and Pellet feed on production performance of Sonali chicken in Bangladesh. A total of 176 day old chicks (DOC) were randomly assigned into two treatment groups namely T1 and T2 having four replications in each treatment group. Chicks were brooded up to 28 days then randomly separate into replication wise in separate pen for rearing 11 weeks. Each treatment group contains 88 birds whereas each replication contains 22 birds. Experimental birds in T1 and T2 were provided Pellet feed and Mash feed respectively. The results of this study was indicated that final live weight gain and feed conversion ratio (FCR) of birds found significantly (p<0.05) higher in T1 group (814.33±14.38g) that received Pellet feed compared (T1) to Mash feed (T2) (725.00±11.80g). This result also indicated that body weight gain, and feed efficiency were increased at Pellet feed. The low feed cost found in T2 and high in T1 group. Net profit Tk. found maximum in T2 (26.30±1.88) followed by T1 (25.78±1.60).The present study concludes that Pellet feed is more economic than Mash feed.