Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXIII, Issue 2
Written by David POGOSYAN, Vladimir ZEMNYAKOV, Elena ZUEVA, Elena VARLAMOVA
Studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of the use of fattening broilers at the age of 15-38 days of unconventional grain feed for poultry farming in the amount of 30% of the feed mass used instead of corn grain. It has been established that the use of bare-grain barley and triticale grains in the composition of the fed experimental compound feeds increases the digestibility of dry substances and crude protein in the digestive tract of chickens by 2.4-2.8 and 3.3-3.5%, which is accompanied by an increase in the growth rate of young animals by 7.4-7.8%, respectively, compared with the use of corn in the control group. The use of bare oats is considered not an effective method, as it leads to a decrease in meat productivity of chickens by 3.1% due to a decrease in the digestibility of nutrients. There is a decrease in feed costs for producing 1 kg of poultry meat when feeding barley and triticale grain by 2.8-3.9% and an increase in slaughter yield of 1%.
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