Effects of using Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) leaves meal, Pennisetum purpureum meal, and Azolla caroliniana meal as a replacement for complete feed on production performance, carcass characteristic and blood cholesterol levels of broilers
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Commercial broilers have high production performance when fed nutritionally complete feed. Due to the high price of feed, strategies to reduce feed costs should be sought. Therefore, the objective was to study the effect of concentrate feed replacement with Leucaena leaves meal, sweet grass meal, and Azolla meal on production performance, carcass characteristic and blood cholesterol levels in Cobb 500 broilers. A completely randomized design was used, with 4 treatments. Treatment 1 was completed diet (control) while treatments 2, 3, and 4 were diet replacements with 5% of Leucaena leaves meal, sweet grass meal, and Azolla meal fed to 14-day-old mixed-sex Cobb 500 broilers. Each treatment was divided into 6 replicates of 11 birds, for a total of 264 chickens. The chicken was given an ad-lib of feed and water. Body weight and feed intake data were collected every week until 35 days of age. Blood collection was randomly drawn, and resections were performed one for each bird, totaling 24 birds. Carcass characteristic and blood cholesterol levels were measured. The data were analyzed for variance. It was found that broilers fed with concentrate feed replacement with 5% sweet grass meal were able to make the chickens have the best production performance at 35 days of age (P<0.01). Diet replacement with 5% Leucaena leaves meal was the least of belly fat weight (P<0.05). Diet replacement with 5% Azolla meal was the most of redness color of skin broiler carcass, liver weight, gizzard weight, spleen weight (P<0.01), and shin and foot weight (P<0.05). Other carcass characteristics and cholesterol levels were not statistically different (P>0.05). Therefore, rearing broilers between 14-35 days of age should promote the use of forage crops in order to reduce feed cost in the broiler industry.
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