Assessment of Some Common Commercial Poultry Feed on Broiler Performance in Mubi Adamawa State Nigeria

The research was conducted at the teaching and research (T&R) farm Sahuda road Mubi of the Department of Animal Production, Adamawa State University (ADSU) Mubi to evaluate the four most common commercial poultry feeds used in the area. The feeds are Niger feed, feed master, vital feed and Suny-J coded as diet I, II, III and IV, respectively. A total of 96 Anak 2000 broiler chicks were used for the study which lasted for a period of nine weeks. Each diet was replicated three times with eight birds per replicate making24 birds per each treatment. Broiler starter and finisher of the four different feeds were used for the brooding and finishing stages, respectively. Feeds and clean water were supplied at all times. Proximate analyses for the four treatments diets were performed to ascertain the nutrients content and to compare with what was written on the feed labels. Significant (P<0.001) weekly feed intake and growth performance was recorded on each diet during brooding and finishing stages. However, non significant feed intake and growth performance was observed on the four diets. Highest fed conversion ratio (FCR) was recorded on diet I during brooding (0.81) and finishing (0.97) stages. In conclusion, all the four different commercial diets used in this study are highly recommended for broiler production here in Mubi and its environs.