NUTRITIONAL EVALUATION OF GRADED LEVELS OF UNRIPE PLANTAIN PEEL (MUSAPARADISCA) MEAL ON THE PERFORMANCE OF GROWING JAPANESE QUAILS (COTURNIX)

Résumé

A total of fifty growing quail birds of two weeks of age were randomly assigned to five dietary treatments at 0, 7.91, 15.81, 23.73 and 30.51% in a completely randomized design experiment to evaluate the effect of unripe plantain peel meals on the growth performance of growing quails. A feeding trails lasting for 42 days was carried out. Results on performance showed that the dietary treatments influenced (P<0.05) final weight, total weight gain, total feed intake, average feed intake and feed conversion ration of the quail birds with the highest total weight gain (10.11) recorded for T1 in the control diet. For total feed intake the values were 21.57, 22.60, 14.50, 4.07 and 6.00g. This study showed that incorporation of unripe plantain peel could economically replace maize at level of 30.51%; but for optimal growth performance of unripe plantain growing quail birds, feeding of UPPM at the level of 23.73% is advised.