Hiba Saeed Ali Nouri , Syada Awad Mohamed Ali *, Hyder Osman Abdalla and Hatim Badwi Ahmed
Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Sudan
*Corresponding author: saydamhmmd@gmail.com; saydamhmmd@yahoo.com
Soybean meal SBM is a globally popular protein source for poultry feeding. In Sudan, peanut meal PNM is considered the main source of protein in poultry feeding. An experiment was conducted to study the replacement of PNM with roasted SBM (RSBM15) on broiler performance, carcass characteristics, and economic appraisal. One hundred and eight, one-week-old male (Ross 308) broiler chicks were used. The chicks were allocated randomly into three dietary treatments using a completely randomized design with three replicates and twelve birds in each replicate. Treatment one T1 (100% RSBM15), T2 (50% RSBM 15+ 50% GNM) and T3 (100% GNM). PNM had significantly (P?0.05) the best performance results concerning body weight (BW), body weight gain (BWG), feed intake (FI), and feed conversion ratio (FCR). PNM had significantly (P?0.05) the best results in carcasses and some carcass parts weights (breasts, thighs, wings, and drumsticks) and dressing percentages. The gastrointestinal tract (GIT) weights were insignificantly (P?0.05) different, except the heart and pancreas weights, where PNM reported the highest weights of livers and pancreases. There were no significant differences (P?0.05) in mortality rates and sensory attributes (taste, flavor, color, and tenderness) among all treatments. However, there were significant (P?0.05) differences in the economic appraisal among the three treatments, where PNM recorded the best revenue. It can be revealed that PNM had the best performance parameters. It was concluded that further studies are recommended for the different varieties of SBM.