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This study was conducted to determine intake and growth performance of broiler chicks fed with Jatropha curcas kernel meal physico-chemically and biologically processed. The feed experiment lasted for 7 days with 20-day-old Ross 308 strain unsexed broiler chicks. Two dietary treatments were given each to ten animals, according to a complete randomized design. Kernels, manually obtained from J. curcas seed, were defatted, heated, and fermented with a strain of Aspergillus niger and oven-dried, in order to obtain the treated jatropha kernel meal. This latter was used to replace one third of a groundnut meal premix which was then incorporated in a commercial diet to warrant iso-nitrogenous and iso-caloric characteristics of the diets. Data collected were analyzed according to ANOVA procedure. The results revealed that the animals that received the diet incorporating jatropha kernel meal had numerically higher live weight (156.1 vs. 152.7 g/animal) (P > 0.05) and average daily weight gain (12.3 vs. 11.7 g/day/animal) (P > 0.05) than the control ones, at the end of experiment. The average daily feed intake was the same for the two groups of animals (23.2 g/day/animal) (P > 0.05) with a similar feed conversion ratio (2.0 vs. 2.1 respectively for the jatropha group and the control group). The survival rate, at the end of the experiment, was 100% for the two groups of animals. Physico-chemically and biologically processed Jatropha curcas kernel could be an interesting by-product for poultry feeding.
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This study received financial support provided by the University Commission for Development (CUD) of Belgium for carrying out this study, through the inter-university program focused on improvement of agro ecological techniques of agricultural production systems integrating jatropha in the western part of the Senegalese groundnut basin.
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Nesseim, T.D.T., Benteboula, M., Dieng, A. et al. Effects of partial dietary substitution of groundnut meal by defatted, Aspergillus niger–fermented and heated Jatropha curcas kernel meal on feed intake and growth performance of broiler chicks. Trop Anim Health Prod 51, 1383–1391 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-019-01830-4
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