Different Indigenous Plants as Feed Supplement on the Performance of Cobb Broilers

Abstract

This study was conducted at the Centerfor Research Poultry House, UNP, Vigan, llocos Surfrom October 6 to November 22, 1992 to determine the performance of cobb broilers fed with different indigenous plants such as ipil-ipil, katuday leaves and aragan as supplement to commercial feeds. The Completely Randomized Design (CRD) was employed in two replications with the following treatments: TI - 100% commercial feeds (cf; T2 - 90% cf + 10% ground ipil- ipil leaves; T3 - 90% cf + 10% ground katuday leaves; T4 - 90% cf + 10% ground aragan. Data gathered was delimited on the growth performance, feed consumption, feed conversion efficiency and net return per bird in pesos which were statistically analyzed using the analysis of variance procedure and further tested employing the Duncan's Multiple Range Test (DMRT). Findings revealed insignificant differences among treatments in most of the data gathered except for the total gain in weight andfeed conversion efficiency of the experimental birds which gave highly significant and significant differences among treatments, respectively. Based on the findings, ground aragan (sargassum) is highly recommended to be utilized by broiler raisers asfeed supplement to commercial feeds
in order to produce heavier birds after six weeks and thereby reducing the cost offeed and increasing the net return.