An experiment aimed at determining the effects of lysine and methionine levels in diets on the growth performance, quality of caracass and economic returns of growing guinea fowls from 5 to 14 weeks of age, was conducted in the Mekong delta. The experiment was a completely randomized design experiment with 6 treatments and 3 replicates for each treatment. From 5 to 8 weeks of age, treatments consisted of two diets having 20% and 17% CP without lysine and methionine supplementation; 4 other diets having 17%CP with lysine and methionine supplementated to the diets to reach lysine and methionine levels of 1,10 – 0,45;1,10 – 0,55; 1,40 – 0,45% và 1,40 - 0,55%, respectively. From 9 to 14 weeks of age, treatments consisted of two diets containing 18% and 15% CP without lysine and methionine supplementation; 4 others having 15% of CP level, with lysine and methionine supplemented to reach lysine and methionine levels of 0,90 - 0,40; 0,90 - 0,50; 1,20 – 0,40 và 1,20 - 0,50%, respectively. Results showed that 5-8 week old chicken fed the diet containing 20%CP, without lysine and methionine supplementation had similar dailyweight gain, live weight and feed conversion ratio (FCR) to those fed the diets contained 17% CP, supplemented with 1.40% lysine and 0.55% methionine. 9-14 week old chicken fed the diet containing 18%CP without lysine and methionine supplementation gave similar daily weight gain, final live weight, FCR with those fed diets contained 15% CP, supplemented with 1.20% lysine and 0.50% methionine. It could be concluded that growing Guinea fowls from 5 – 8 and 9 -14 week of age fed the diets containing 17% CP, 1.40% lysine, 0.55% methionine and 15% CP,1.20% lysine, 0.50% methionine had the highest daily weight gain, final live weight, carcass quality and better profits.
Tạp chí khoa học Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
Lầu 4, Nhà Điều Hành, Khu II, đường 3/2, P. Xuân Khánh, Q. Ninh Kiều, TP. Cần Thơ
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