S. A. Babiker, H.M. Mousa* and Hanan Muawia*
Institute of Animal Production, University of Khartoum
P.o. Box 32, Khartoum North, Sudan
SUMMARY
Cassava root meal when used to replace 0, 25, 50 and 75% of the energy supplied by grain sorghum for broilers, depressed growth rate and feed conversion efficiency, but the depression was only significant (P < 0.05) at the highest level of cassava. A significant (P < 0.05) reduction in eviscerated carcass weight, dressing percentage and increase in viscera weight, particularly that of liver and abdominal fat and chemically extracted muscle fat and ash were recorded when cassava supplied 75% of sorghum grain on energy basis .
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