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Improving broiler performance in the tropics using quantitative nutrition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2013

V.N. MEREMIKWU ,
H.A. IBEKWE  and
A. ESSIEN
V.N. MEREMIKWU*
Affiliation:
Cross River University of Technology, Obubra Campus, Department of Animal Science, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
H.A. IBEKWE
Affiliation:
Cross River University of Technology, Obubra Campus, Department of Animal Science, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
A. ESSIEN
Affiliation:
Cross River University of Technology, Obubra Campus, Department of Animal Science, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
*
Corresponding author: victoriameremikwu@yahoo.com
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Abstract

The conventional method of feeding broilers, using high density diets has been found to be associated with increases in fatness and a number of metabolic disorders. The adverse effect of high density diets on the performance of broilers was found to be more pronounced under a tropical environment. Allowing broilers free access to feed using low density diets (quantitative nutrition) has been suggested as a strategy to improve the performance of the broilers within the prevailing environmental conditions in the tropics. A specific approach had been evaluated as suitable for reducing the available metabolisable energy (AME) intakes of the broiler and increasing feed intake. This involves diet dilution with high fibre feedstuffs to reduce the available metabolisable energy (AME) value of the diet.

Keywords

broilerperformancetropicsfeed intakequantitative nutrition
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Review Article
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , September 2013 , pp. 633 - 638
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Copyright © World's Poultry Science Association 2013

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