Volume: 56 Issue: 1
Year: 2025, Page: 170-173, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2025.56.1.170-173
Received: Nov. 7, 2024 Accepted: Jan. 23, 2025 Published: March 31, 2025
Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) are nutrient rich co-product of ethanol production industry. High protein (45 – 50 %), as well as medium energy content (2400 - 2800 kcal/kg ME) with low fiber (5-9 %), attracts the DDGS as an alternative to commonly used oil cakes such as soybean meal and groundnut cake in poultry feeds. The price difference between DDGS and soybean meal varies between Rs.7.0 and Rs. 10.0/- per kg. A total of 10 progressive native chicken rearing farmers located in Karur District of Tamil Nadu holding more than 40 birds were selected for conducting this trial. A group of 20 birds were offered rice DDGS whereas another 20 birds served as control for comparison purpose. A total of 200 kgs of rice DDGS was distributed to 10 farmers (@ 20 kg per farmer). Each bird was offered one kg of DDGS as a supplementary feed for 90 days period along with conventional feeding schedule already adopted by the farmers. The DDGS used in this trial contained (% as fed basis) 45.87 crude protein, 9.14 crude fibre, 7.63 ether extract, 4.37 total ash, 2.01 sand and silica, 0.25 calcium, 0.6 phosphorus. The palatability of rice DDGS was satisfactory as perceived by the farmers. The body weight gain of growing birds (g), livability (%), egg production (% hen day), mean egg weight (g), hatchability of eggs (%) and the cost of egg production (in Rs. per egg) were better (P ≤ 0.05) in group fed rice DDGS as compared to the control. The cost of production (in Rs.) per kg live weight did not vary significantly. The cost of egg production (in Rs. per egg) was Rs.0.50 lower in DDGS fed group. From this study, it can be inferred that supplementation of rice DDGS in the ration of native chicken improves (P ≤ 0.05) the production performance in terms of weight gain, egg production, hatchability and livability.
Keywords: Rice DDGS, Native chicken, Tamil Nadu
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Bharathy, N. and Vasanthakumar, P. 2024. Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) -Alternate feed resource for native chicken production.
J. Vet. Anim. Sci. 56 (1):170-173