Effects of Supptementation of Palm Oil in Isonitrogenous Diets on Broilers

Day-old commercial broiler chicks were fed with a commercial diet until three weeks. Then the chicks were randomly distributed by sex in groups of six into 40 wire floor pens, 20 each for male and female. Each pen constituted one of the four replications of factorial design in Completely Randomized Design (CRD). Five experimental diets, including a basal diet were formulated to study the effects of four levels of palm oil (2, 4,6 and 8%) on growth and body composition. Increasing palm oil level resulted in a corresponding rise in the dietary energy concentration. It was found that broilers fed on higher energy diets had improved feed and energy consumption, daily weight gain and feed conversion ratio. Total carcass fat content was found to increase while carcass protein decreased at higher levels ofpalm oil inclusion. l. Introduction E (antioxidant agent), which make it more The broiler industry in the tropics is stable. rapidly expanding and is relatively efficient. The addition of fat or oil to grower diets However, the full genetic potential of the can improve efficiency and increases broilers is seldom achieved due to adverse digestibility in both broilers and pigs. For layin