Effects of Dietary Inclusion of Oil Palm Seed Meal in The Diet on The Production Performance of Growing Native Chickens

Abstract

An experiment was conducted for 12 weeks to determine the effects of dietary inclusion of oil palm seed meal in the  diet on the production performance of growing native chickens.  60  unsexed native chicks  used in this study. They were randomly allotted into receive four dietary treatments with five  replicates of three chicks/replicate. Dietary treatments were formulated according to NRC  (1994)  recommendations, and the four dietary treatments consisted of T0, T1, T2, and T3 supplemented with 0%ˏ 25%ˏ 50% and 75% of dietary inclusion of oil palm seed meal in the commercial diet supplied by Sinta Prima Feed Mill Indonesiaˏ and they contained 3000, 2688, 2375  and 2063  kkal/kg of metabolisable energy and  21, 17, 13, and 9%  crude protein respectively. The parameters measured were feed intake, feed conversion, body weight gain, body weight, carcass percentage and income over feed cost (IOFC). Dietary inclusion of oil palm seed meal in the diet for  native chickens resulted highly significant (P <0.01)  feed intake, feed conversion ratio, body weight gainˏ body weight and  IOFC. While dietary  inclusion of  oil palm seed meal in their  diets  produced no significant effect (P> 0.05) on  their  percentage of  carcasses.  In conclusionˏ dietary oil palm seed meal can be included up to  50%  in the diet of  native chickens until the age of 12 weeks, and resulted in their weight gain were relatively similar to the control diet  with their feed conversion ratio was the lowest compared with other treatments