International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)

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Research Paper | Nutrition Science | Nigeria | Volume 5 Issue 3, March 2016


Effect of Exogenous Enzyme Supplementation of Dried Pulverized Unripe Plantain Peel Meal on the Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Finisher Broilers

Ikpe J. N. | Okorie K. C. | Oko E. C.


Abstract: Dried plantain peel, a waste product collected from plantain chips processors was sundried, milled to obtain the meal. The meal was supplemented with exogenous enzyme (Nutrizyme) at the rate of 100grams per 100kgrams of the meal. The enzyme fortified meal, was used to formulate treatment diets. Treatment 1 was the experimental baseline (control) and treatments 2, 3 and 4 contained the fortified meal at 10 %, 15 % and 20 % respectively. The treatment diets were fed to a group of 120 four weeks old broilers of the Abor acres breed, randomly assigned to the treatment diets at 30 broiler per treatment. Each treatment group was subsequently replicated into 3 consisting of 10 broilers per replicate and raised on deep litter pen. The result of the experiment showed that the final live weight of broilers in treatment 1 is highest though not significantly different (p>0.05) from those in treatment 3, while broilers in treatment 2 and then those in 4 were uniform but significantly different (p


Keywords: Unripe plantain peel meal, Endogenous enzyme, Broiler production


Edition: Volume 5 Issue 3, March 2016,


Pages: 1176 - 1180


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Ikpe J. N., Okorie K. C., Oko E. C., "Effect of Exogenous Enzyme Supplementation of Dried Pulverized Unripe Plantain Peel Meal on the Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Finisher Broilers", International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Volume 5 Issue 3, March 2016, pp. 1176-1180, https://www.ijsr.net/get_abstract.php?paper_id=NOV162011

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