Amal E. Mahmoud; Khadiga A. Abdel Ati
and E. A. El Zubeir

Faculty of Animal Production, University of Khartoum
P. 0. Box 32 Khartoum North, Sudan.

SUMMARY

An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of feeding various levels of sunflower seed meal (SSM) on hens performance of laying and on egg quality. Four dietary treatments of four levels of SSM (0, 10, 20 and 30%) were used. Each treatment was assigned randomly to a group of 60 birds. The birds were raised in battery cages for 13 weeks. Parameters measured were rate of lay, feed intake, feed conversion ratio (FCR), mortality, egg weight, shape index, shell thickness and egg yolk colour. Results showed that feeding different levels of SSM had no significant effect (p > 0.05) on the parameters measured except feed conversion and egg yolk (p < 0.05). The results of this study suggest that up to 30% SSM can be included in laying hens diet without adverse effect on performance or egg quality.

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