@article{Mahbub_Baqui_Sarker_2011, title={Replacement of maize by different levels of triticale on performances and meat yield characteristics of broiler chickens}, volume={1}, url={https://banglajol.info/index.php/iJNS/article/view/8613}, DOI={10.3329/ijns.v1i1.8613}, abstractNote={<p>An experiment was conducted for a period of 5 weeks with 240 day-old cobb-500 broiler chicks and were allocated into six dietary treatments with isocaloric and isonitrogenous containing 2975 Kcal ME/kg DM & 21.70% CP and 3077 Kcal ME/kg DM & 20.34% CP both starter and finisher ration respectively. There were 40 chicks per treatment, each treatment had 4 replication having 10 chicks in each. The dietary treatments were T<sub>1</sub> (0% triticale + 100% maize), T<sub>2</sub> (20% triticale + 80% maize), T<sub>3</sub> (40% triticale + 60% maize), T<sub>4</sub> (60% triticale + 40% maize), T<sub>5</sub> (80% triticale + 20% maize) and T<sub>6</sub> (100% triticale + 0% maize). The broilers of all treatment groups were supplied feeds and water ad libitum throughout the experimental period. There were no significant differences (P>0.05) in feed intake, final body weight, total gain, feed conversion efficiency, survivability% but feed cost per kg live broiler production was differed significantly (P<0.01) among dietary treatments at 35 days of age. Therefore, it is clear that triticale is a good alternative cereal for broiler diet without affecting performance and it may safely replace up to 100% of maize but 40% replacement enhance production performance and edible meat yield of broiler and reducing feed cost (Tk. 2.88/kg) per unit of broiler production.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Triticale; maize replacement; production performance; meat yield characteristics</p><p>DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/ijns.v1i1.8613</p> <p><em>International Journal of Natural Sciences</em> (2011), 1(1):25-30</p>}, number={1}, journal={International Journal of Natural Sciences}, author={Mahbub, ASM and Baqui, MA and Sarker, NR}, year={2011}, month={Sep.}, pages={25–30} }