F.I.M. Salih And O.E. Abdel Wahab.

Poultry Unit, Kaki Research Station
P.D. box 89 Industrial area, Khartoum North, Sudan.

SUMMARY

The nutritive value of Roselle Seed meal (RSM) as a feed ingredient for broiler chicks was studied. Sesame and groundnut cakes in a sorghum grain based diet were replaced by 0, 100, 200 and 300 g/kg RSM in the concentrate compound, and fed to Hybro commercial broiler chicks for 6 weeks.

The results indicated that RSM can replace both sesame and groundnut cakes in diets for growing broilers. There is a linear relationship between the dietary level of RSM and body weight gain, food intake and feed conversion ratio.

RSM less than 20% significantly depressed body weight gain and feed conversion ratio while 20 and 30% levels produced insignificant differences in body weight gain, food intake, feed conversion ratio and mortality rate.

The 17.84% crude fibre level in RSM’ produced no observable

deleterious effect in the perfotmance•of the experimental birds.

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