Growth performance, nutrient digestibility, carcass and economic characteristics of turkey poults fed millet-based diets as a replacement for maize

A nine (9) weeks feeding trial was conducted on seventy two (72) day-old Indigenous turkey poults raised deep litter to determine their growth performance, carcass and economic characteristics when fed three dietary treatments (T1, T2, T3, containing 0%, 25% 50% replacement of maize with millet respectively. The birds were divided into replicates 8 per replicate; making a total 24 treatment. At the end & week, 4 replicate transferred specially-designed metabolism cages for digestibility study involving collection faecal droppings; while at week experiments, randomly selected slaughtered characteristics. Turkey 25 %replacement showed significantly (p<0.05) higher body weight gain, lower cost feed kg live gain revenue generated bird; but there no significant (p>0.05) differences in performance 0% 50 % replacements those parameters. Also, intake mortality across treatments. Similarly, nutrient digestibilities among various Therefore, it can be concluded hat cam used replace up S0 diets starter phase detrimental effects