Growth response and nutrient digestibility of broiler chickens to diets containing different levels of rumen digesta filtrate fermented earth ball (Icacinia manni) meal
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A 28-day feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the growth response of broiler chickens fed rumen digesta filtrate (RDF) fermented earth ball meal at the finisher stage. One kilogram of the digesta was weighed into a bucket, and one litre of water was added, stirred, filtered, and incubated at 23–240 °C for 48 hours. The peeled earth ball roots were divided into three portions and the first portion sundried. In contrast, the second and third portions were packed into two separate capped plastic buckets containing cultured rumen digesta filtrate and a litre of water for the fermentation process at 24°C for 48 hours. The fermented samples were packed into bags, pressed, and sundried. Five broiler finisher diets were formulated, using RDF-fermented earth ball meal to replace maize in the control diet. One hundred and fifty, 28-day-old broiler birds were divided into five groups, each assigned to one of the five diets in a completely randomized design. The result revealed that water and RDF fermentation medium increased (P<0.05) the crude protein content of the earth ball meal from 3.06% to 7.33 and 5.21%, respectively. The gross energy was reduced to 2.28 kcal/g by water fermentation media, while the crude fibre was reduced by RDF media to 9.64%. The ether extract digestibility increased from 54.17% in birds on the control diet to 68.47% in birds fed 10% RDF earth ball meal diet. It was concluded that RDF-fermented earth ball meal could replace maize at 20% in a broiler finisher’s diet.
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