M.I. Omer and N.A. Musharaf *

Animal Production Research Centre-Kuku Area-Khartoum North,
P. 0. Box 1355 — Sudan.

SUMMARY

The experiment was designed to evaluate the nutritive value of some local animal and plant protein supplement mixes in starter chick’s diet for six weeks.

Chicks given vegetable protein (V), fish meal (F) and blood meal (B) diets showed no significant difference (P>0.05) in feed intake, weight gain and feed conversion ratio when compared with the control diet (C) that contained imported rearing concentrate.

Cost of feed / kg for diets C, V, F, and B were 40.5, 35.7, 39.2 and 39.3 Sudanese dinnar respectively.

It is concluded that under the conditions of the present experiment, the diets V, F and B can be used as alternative sources for the imported superconcentrate

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