Table 1 Diet compositions for the experiment
From: Cashew reject meal in diets of laying chickens: nutritional and economic suitability
Control | Defatted cashew reject meal | Full fat cashew reject meal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Composition,% | 0% | 50% | 75% | 100% | 25% | 37.5% | 50% |
Maize | 40.00 | 40.00 | 40.00 | 40.00 | 40.00 | 40.00 | 40.00 |
Groundnut cake | 22.00 | 11.00 | 5.50 | 0.00 | 16.50 | 13.75 | 11.00 |
Corn bran | 20.00 | 20.00 | 20.00 | 20.00 | 14.80 | 12.25 | 9.60 |
Palm kernel cake | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 |
Bone meal | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
Oystershell | 7.00 | 7.00 | 7.00 | 7.00 | 7.00 | 7.00 | 7.00 |
Fish meal | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 |
Lysine | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 |
Methionine | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 |
Salt | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 |
1Premix | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 |
DCRM | - | 11 | 16.5 | 22 | - | - | - |
FCRM | - | - | - | - | 10.7 | 16.0 | 21.4 |
Total | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Calculated analysis, % | |||||||
Crude Protein | 17.50 | 16.75 | 16.40 | 16.00 | 17.05 | 16.75 | 16.45 |
Crude Fat | 3.35 | 4.10 | 4.30 | 4.50 | 4.98 | 5.20 | 5.40 |
Crude Fibre | 6.54 | 6.45 | 6.40 | 6.38 | 6.48 | 6.46 | 6.44 |
Metabolizable Energy, kcal/kg | 2722 | 2768 | 2775 | 2782 | 2778 | 2806 | 2835 |