Effects of inclusion of ground prosopis juliflora pod on fertility and hatchability of white leghorn hens
- MOJ Food Processing & Technology
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Lemma Gulilat,1 Mengstu Urge,2 Getachew Animut2
Department of Animal Science, Debre Tabor University, Ethiopia - Mengstu Urge, School of Animal and Range Science, Haramaya University, Ethiopia
- Getachew Animut, School of Animal and Range Science, Haramaya University, Ethiopia
Abstract
A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of inclusion of ground Prosopis juliflora pod on fertility, hatchability and chick quality, of white leghorn layers in Haramaya University poultry farm. One hundred sixty eight white leghorn hens with similar initial body weight of 1077±6 g and 27 weeks of ages were randomly distributed to 12 pens. The ingredient used for formulate layer ration were maize grain, noug seed cake, soybean meal, wheat short, ground P. juliflora pod, vitamin premix, lime stone and salt. The four treatment rations used in this study were 0% GPJP inclusion (T1) control group, 10% GPJP (T2), 20% GPJP (T3), and 30% GPJP (T4). Dry matter intake, fertility, hatchability and chick quality were measured during the experiment. The chemical analysis showed that ground P. juliflora pod contained 16.04% CP and 2461.6 ME kcal/kg DM. Levels of GPJP did not negatively affected DMI, fertility, hatchability and chick quality. The result of the present study showed that GPJP can be used in formulation of layers ration up to 20%.
Keywords
Chick quality, Fertility, Ground prosopis juliflora pod, White leghorn, Gground P. juliflora pods, GPJP, Eggs, Meat, Food security, Animal protein, Poultry, Dead embryos, Shell quality, Mortality, Hatchability
