TY  - JOUR
T1  - Economic Value of Date Pits Replaced with Maize in Broiler Chicken Diet
AU - Masoudi, A. AU - Bojarpour, M. AU - Chaji, M. AU - Eslami, M. AU - Mirzadeh, Kh. 
JO  - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL  - 9
IS  - 11
SP  - 1578
EP  - 1581
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1680-5593
DO  - javaa.2010.1578.1581
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2010.1578.1581
KW  - Date pits
KW  -economic value
KW  -broiler chicken
KW  -maize
KW  -Khuzestan
KW  -Iran
AB  - Study was conducted to evaluate the economic value of broiler chicken diets containing Date Pits (DP) replaced by maize. About 180 days old commercial broiler chickens randomly were assigned to four experimental diets; treatments 1-4 included dietary containing 0, 10, 20 and 30% of date pits, respectively. All diets were isonitrogenous and isocaloric and formulated according to Nutrient Requirements of poultry (NRC). The results showed that in compared with control group cost (kg) of feed decreased with increasing of date pits in diets. At whole of starter and grower periods, there were no significant differences (p>0.05) in feed intake. Feed conversion ratio of diets containing 20 and 30% of date pits was significantly more than control diet (respectively, 2.44 and 2.53 vs. 1.91) (p<0.05) but there was no significant difference with diet containing 10% date pits (p>0.05). As cost (kg) of meat production there was no significant difference (p>0.05) between diets, although the cost of meat production was higher in diets containing of date pits (p>0.05). Therefore, date pits reduce the cost of diets but not meat.
ER  -