Growth performance and economics of broiler chickens production fed full fat soy bean as affected by different processing

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance and economics of broiler chickens production fed diets containing differently processed full fat soy bean. Five diets were formulated in which differently processed full fat soy bean containing sprouted, salt treated, cooked and roasted with raw soy bean as control. Two hundred and fifty (250) Anak 2000 broiler chicks were randomly allotted to five dietary treatments replicated five times in a randomized completely block design. Results showed that daily feed intake, daily weight gain, feed conversion ratio and feed efficiency ratio were significantly (p<0.05) affected by the different processing methods at starter, finisher and overall phases by the different processing methods. The feed cost (N/kg gain) was lower in cooked soy bean (N66.08) and highest in salt treated soy bean (N 83.56). It can be concluded that cooked soy bean was more efficient in enhancing growth performance of broiler chickens with concomitant reduction in feed cost.