EVALUATION OF SUBSTITUTION LEVELS OF UNRIPE PLANTAIN PEEL (MUSA PARADISCA) 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.