Adding fish meal into fermented moringa plus yellow corn in the diet does not affect performances but can recover breast yield of broiler

Abstract

<p class="MDPI17abstract"><strong>Objective:</strong> This study aimed to investigate the use of fermented domesticated-type <em>Moringa oleifera </em>leaves (FDMOL) + yellow corn (YC) + rice bran (RB) + top mix (TM) with the provision of fish meal (FM) in replacement of partial commercial diet (CD) to broiler performances and carcass yields.</p><p class="MDPI17abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> The study used 100 broiler chicks, unsex, MB 90 performed into Completely Randomized Design (CRD) consisting of 5 treatments and 4 replicates. The trial diets were: MCR= 84.5% CD + 5% FDMOL + 5% YC + 5% RB + 0.5% TM (moringa+), MCF= 84.5% CD + 5% FDMOL + 5% YC + 5% FM + 0.5% TM (moringa++), C<sub>1</sub>= 100% CD, C<sub>2</sub>= 84.5% CD + 7.5% YC + 7.5% RB + 0.5% TM, and C<sub>3 </sub>= 84.5% CD + 5% YC + 5% RB + 5% FM + 0.5% TM.</p><p class="MDPI17abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> Better adding fish meal into the FDMOL + YC rather than no fish meal in replacement of partial commercial diet to feed on the broilers. Most parameter performances and yields seemed not affected on broilers fed the FDMOL + YC base replacement diet, but the breast tended to reduce, then adding FM into FDMOL + YC relatively recovered this valuable part of cuts-up similar to the control.</p><p class="MDPI17abstract"><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Adding fish meal into fermented domesticated <em>Moringa oleifera </em>plus yellow corn in the diet did not affect performances but could recover the breast yield of broiler compared to those fed the moringa-based diet without adding fish meal.</p>