EVALUATION OF INCLUSION LEVELS OF FULL-FAT SOYA BEAN MEAL IN THE GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF BROILER STARTER DIET

 A PROJECT PROPOSAL PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL SCIENCE, FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION
In the past decades, growth rates of broiler have increased and enable to reach final bird weight earlier. Therefore, the dietary management of newly hatched chick represents an important tool to improve broiler production index. However the immaturity of the digestive system of young chicks reduces its ability to absorb nutrients compared to older birds. According to Vieira and Moran Jr (1999), the intestinal tract of bird is not completely able to digest dietary nutrients until two weeks of age.

            During the early stages of broiler development the ability of digesting carbohydrate and fat is decreased compared to other phases. Noy and Sklan (1995) showed that chicks at four days of age had reduced absorption rates of lipid and carbohydrate (85%) and protein (80%) when comparable to older birds.

            Maize and soyabean have been the most conventionally used sources of energy and protein in the diets of poultry. Maize is the widely used cereal grain in human and animal feeding in many parts of the world. It is also a source of industrial gums and recently fuel. Similarly, full-fat soyabean is an excellent source of vegetable oil, containing about 18% (Aduku, 1993) Obioha (1992) reported that fats and oil yield about 2.25 times more energy than equivalent amount of carbohydrates and/ or protein. These workers also reported that full-fat soyabean contain an excellent amino acid profile comparable to animal protein. Full-fat soyabean are an excellent source of protein and energy for poultry, however the raw grains contain certain anti-nutritional factors that inhibit productivity.

And as a result, prior heating is required. The processing conditions, especially those relating to the milling size, the use of steam, the temperature and the pressure applied, in addition to the process duration, all influences the goodness of the final product and define its nutritional value to a large extent in addition to defining advisable levels of use in commercial diets. Benabdeljelil (1999). The most important antinutritional factors present in raw beans are trypsin and chymotrypsin inhibitors, which reduce the action of pancreatic proteases (Friedman et al., 1991). Other factors to be considered are hemagglutins or lectins (Douglas et al., 1999)

            Brambila et al. (1961) indicate that the trypsin inhibitors are not the only factors responsible for the delay in growth caused by the consumption of untreated soya products. It is known that heat modifies the structure of trypsin inhibitors and hemaglutinis, reduces hypertrophy of the pancreas and improves digestistibility of the protein, yet there is no agreement as regards the percentage of these antinutritional factors which must be destroyed in order to obtain a quality bean. The metabolizable energy content of full-fat soyabean and maize for any monogastric animal are similar (Carew et al., 2007). Thus, when prices do not differ much, they may become alternatives as energy sources.
            This is particularly so in most maize and soyabean producing communities like Benue State. According to Aduku (1993) the metabolizable energy content for maize and full-fat soyabean is 3432 and 3300 Kcal/kg respectively. Carew et al., (2007) therefore compared maize and full-fat soyabean as energy source for rabbits and reported that these feed ingredients can be complementarily used as energy sources.

OBJECTIVES Of THIS STUDY ARE TO:
1.         Determine the treatment effect of inclusion level full-fat soyabean on growth performance of the birds.
2.         Evaluate treatment effect on the blood chemistry.
3.         Determine the cost and benefit of the treatment.
JUSTIFICATION
Current researches are aimed at looking on how to reduce cost of feed in livestock production as human and animal are struggling for conventional feedstuff which maize and soybean is one of them. Market price for maize is higher than that of full-fat soyabean and I want to see at the end of this experiment if gradual replacement of maize with full-fat soyabean will serve as source of protein and source of energy in the growth performance of broiler chicks. As metabolizable energy content of maize is not quite differ from metabolizable energy content of full-fat soyabean. (Aduku, 1993).

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Experimental site: This experiment will be carried out at the Poultry Unit in Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resources Management, Ebonyi State University Abakaliki.
EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL
72 day old chicks of Anak breed will be used in the experiment for the period of 31days (4 weeks). The experiment birds will be purchased from a reputable market dealer and brooded together on deep litter system before they will be allotted to their treatment groups. Each treatment will be replicated three times giving six birds per replicate. The chicken will be feeding on commercial broiler starter diet from day one to seventh day (1-7day) for adaptation period. At eight day, the bird will be assigned to four experimental broiler diets. The ingredients for compounding feed as well as the maize and full-fat soyabean meal will be purchased from the market.
EXPERIMENTAL DIET: maize and soybean will be used and it will be obtained from Ogbaete main Market Enugu State. Four experimental diets will formulated such that diet one(1) will be the control that is the normal feed having 57% maize and 0% full-fat soybean meal. Diet two (2) will contain 5% of full-fat soybean meal.  Diet three (3) will contain 10% of full-fat soybean meal and Diet four (4) will contain 15% of full-fat soybean meal as shown in the Table 1 below:
TABLE 1
Feed composition of broiler starter tests diets
Ingredients
T1(0)  %
T2 (5) %
T3 (10) %
T4 (15) %
Maize
57
54.15
51.3
48.45
Full fat soyabean
0
2.85
5.7
8.55
Groundnut cake
14
14
14
13
Spent grain
10
10
10
10
Fish Meal
4
4
4
4
Palm kernel cake
9
9
9
10
Blood Meal
3
3
3
3
Bone meal
2
2
2
2
Salt
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
Premix
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
Lysine
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
Methionine
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
Total
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00





Table 2
Calculated chemical composition of the experimental diet

T1
T2
T3
T4
CP (%)
21.05
22.07
23.1
23.8
CF (%)
3.5920
3.7403
3.8485
3.9768
ME Kcal/kg
2897.47
2876.55
2855.63
2834.71
Ether extract (%)
4.7800
4.3720
4.31050
4.2580a

EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE
The soybean will be manually roasted to rid the feedstuffs of the presence of anti-nutritional factors. The particle size of each maize and soybean will be reduced by grinding with a harmer mill.
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
A completely randomized design (CRD) will used for the experiment and it will have four treatments that is T1, T2, T3, and T4 and three replicate. Each treatment will be replicated three times and each space will contain six birds giving a total of 72 birds
MANAGEMENT OF THE EXPERIMENTAL BIRDS
Before arrival of the bird, I will clear, clean and disinfect the poultry house and all there in. Installations including bedding of the flour, water and feed troughs, source of light and heat and security gadgets will be in place. The feed must have been formulated too. At arrival, the birds will be given antistress (mixture of glucose and vitalyte in water). Random placement into replicates will be observed followed by feeding and water and libitum. feed given must have been weighed and recorded to enable me know exactly quantity of feed consumed. All routine medication including vaccinations and deworming  will be observed to the latter. Weighed feed will always be supplied early in the morning by 7.30am daily as well as by 6.00pm in the evening. Water and feed troughs must be washed before serving the feed and water.
FEED ANALYSIS
The feed will be taken and proximate analysis will be carried out. Dry matter will be determined by oven drying at 1030c for 4 hrs and the result will be expressed at percentage dry matter. Crude protein will be determined by the Kjeldahi method (% crude protein = % N x 6.25). Ether extract will be determined using the extraction method. Crude fibre will be determined by weighing the residue of the feed after washing with alkali. feed inake, body weight and feed conversion ratio will be determined at starter phase. Mortalities will be recorded daily and their body weight will be used to adjust for average daily gain (ADG), Average daily feed intake (ADF) and feed conversion ration (FCR). Lastly blood chemistry will be determined.
DATA COLLECTION
FEED INTAKE
The daily feed intake will be determined by subtracting the initial weight of the feed from the one remaining after serving the birds
Feed consumed = feed supplied – feed remaining
BODY WEIGHT GAIN
The body weight gain of the birds will be determined by weighing the birds weekly and subtracting the previous weeks from the present through backs mechanism using weighing balance.
FEED CONVERSION RATIO
The feed conversion ratio of the bird will be computed by dividing the average daily feed intake by the average daily body weight gain
FCR = Average Daily Feed Intake
            Average Body weight gain
COLLECTION OF BLOOD SAMPLE
At the end of the starter phase, occult blood will be collected from the brachial vein of the birds in each treatment for laboratory analysis of blood chemistry (because of cholesterol in broiler meat)
ECONOMY OF PRODUCTION
The cost of maize and full-fat soyabean and other feed materials will be determined through the product market price. The market weight of the bird will be used for determining the return of the use of maize and full-fat soyabean and other feed ingredients. The gross margin will be calculated by subtracting the cost from the return. The interest cost ratio will also be determined by return on products divided by cost of production.
Benefit / cost Ratio = return
                                                  Cost
DATA ANALYSIS
Data collected will be subjected to the statistical analysis using analysis of variance (ANOVA) steel and Torrie, (1980). The mean will be separated using Ducan Multiple New Range Test Obi, (2002)
STATISTICAL MODEL
Xij = µ+ Ti + Eij
Where
Xij = Individual Observation
µ =      Population Mean
Ti =     Treatment effect I – T1 T2 T3 T4
Eij =    Experimental Error, Describing the effect of measurement to be taken.
 
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