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Broiler starter ration
Ingredients Formulations
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1 2 3
(parts per 100 kg ration)
Maize 55 50 30
Wheat - - 25
Rice polish - 5 -
Groundnut cake 32 16 10
Soyabean - 11 10
Maize gluten meal - 5 5
Mustard cake - - 7
Fish meal 8 8 8
Meat meal 2 2 2
Dicalcium phosphate 2 2 2
Lime Stone 0.5 0.5 0.5
Common salt 0.4 0.4 0.4
Vitamin + mineral 0.1 0.1 0.1
Protein content(%) 22.0 23.0 23.4
Metabolizable 2900 2900 2825
energy (Kcal/kg)
The feed intake varies with environmental temperature. The moderate temperature can be treated as 70-85oF. If
the environmental temperate is higher, then for each degree F the feed consumption is reduced by 1 g per bird by day and if
the temerature falls, the feed intake increased 1 g/bird/day per 1o F fall in temperature.
The concentrations of vitamins, minerals and protein should be increased or decreased depending upon the
environmental temperature so that in the total quantity of feed that is consumed by the birds, same amount of protein (amino
acids), minerals, vitamins should be consumed daily in adequate amounts.
RABBITORY
The rabbit production has become increasingly important in developing countries, especially in a country like India
due to the following reasons :
1. Rabbit meat has no religious taboo as the feed habits of rabbits offer no competition to human population. Rabbit
meat can be produced solely from feed that is unfit for human consumption, such as kitchen refuse, weeds and
leaves, agricultural and industrial byproducts etc.
2. The different types of rabbits adapt to extreme seasonal variations and available feeds.
3. The rabbit production is highly economical because of large number of kits, short interval between generations
and relatively high weight gain per day. For example, a cow produces approx. 0.6 times her weight in off spring
during one year period, an ewe 0.8 times her weight while a doe produces 10-20 times her weight in off spring per
year.
4. Relatively inexpensive housing.
5. Rabbits also require low level of nutrients as compared to other livestock e.g. a doe with 50 off springs per year
requires less than 1/3 feed energy than that of cow and less than half that consumed by an ewe with 1-2 lambs
per year.
6. Fur skins from rabbits are used in the manufacture of garments, toys. shoes and gloves etc. and can be readily
processed to provide material for many profitable attractive items.
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