| Yazarlar |
Güray Erener
Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
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Nuh Ocak
Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
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Ali Vaiz Garipoğlu
Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
Prof. Dr. Ahmet ŞAHİN
Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
|
Ergin Öztürk
Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
|
Hazza Mufleh
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|
Amer Abdullah
|
| Özet |
| This study was carried out to determine the effects of free choice feeding of starter feed and whole cereals on the growth of turkey poults. Two hundred-seventy poults (7-d old) were divided into 3 treatment groups each with 3 replications containing 15 males and 15 females. Control poults (C) were fed only on starter feed (280 g CP and 11.7 MJ ME/kg). Treatments for choice-fed turkey poults were offered a choice of a starter feed and wheat (120 g CP and 12.3 MJ ME/kg) for wheat selecting (WS) or maize (83 g CP and 13.9 MJ ME/kg) for maize selecting (MS) group in separate feeders. Final live weight (2,280.7 g for the C vs. 2,374.3 and 2,324.6 g for the WS and MS), daily gain (39.21 g vs. 40.87 and 39.99 g) and total feed intake (95.2 g vs. 103.2 and 97.9 g) in the WS poults were significantly higher (p<0.05) than those of the C group, but feed conversion ratio was not significantly different between the treatments. The proportional intakes of cereals vs. total feed intake were 11% in both the WS and MS group. The amount of protein intake in the C group (280 g CP/kg diet) was significantly (p<0.05) higher than that in WS and MS groups (263 and 259 g CP/kg diet, respectively) whilst the ME intake in the C group (11.7 MJ/kg diet) was significantly (p<0.05) lower than that in MS group (11.9 MJ/kg diet). Our results showed that turkey poults fed starter feed and whole wheat in a free choice feeding system have a higher efficiency in terms of daily gain, final live weight, and an economic advantage may be obtained from free choice feeding due to a reduced protein intake and feed cost. |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| Choice Feeding | Growth Performance | Turkey Poults | Whole Cereals |
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale |
| Makale Alt Türü | SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale |
| Dergi Adı | ASIAN-AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCES |
| Dergi ISSN | 1011-2367 |
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | SCI |
| Makale Dili | İngilizce |
| Basım Tarihi | 01-2006 |
| Cilt No | 19 |
| Sayı | 1 |
| Sayfalar | 86 / 90 |
| Doi Numarası | 10.5713/ajas.2006.86 |
| Atıf Sayıları | |
| SCOPUS | 7 |
| Google Scholar | 15 |
| ResearchGate | 12 |
