Fatty Acid Content and Carcass Quality Chicken Fed Diet Formulated With Saturated

Twelve (12) weeks feeding trial was conducted to determine the effect of fatty acid content/total lipid and carcass characteristics/organoleptic qualities of broiler fed diets supplemented with dietary fat sources at levels of 5% saturated and 5% unsaturated. Three experimental diets identified as T1, T2 and T3 were formulated, the control diet T1 was with 0% fat, T2 contained palm oil at 5% inclusion and T3 contained 5% groundnut oil respectively. Feed and water was provided ad-Libitum. Hundred and twenty (120) day old Anak Strain broiler chicks were randomly distributed into three (3) experimental diets in a completely randomized design (CRD). Each treatmen replicated into four with thirty birds per replicate. The result indicated that the different dietary treatments has effect on Total cholesterol, triglycerides, high-density low density lipoprotein (P>0.05) except T densitylipoprotein which reduces total cholesterol. However, addition of dietary fats increased the total cholesterol, Triglycerides and low-densitythe experiment (p>0.05). Chicks fed diet with supplemented fat sources had the most body live weight and no significant differences were observed in meat tenderness, juiciness and flavour (p>0.05). There were significant differences between carcass characteristics (except for abdominal fat pad) due to dietary treatment (p>0.05) and levels of inclusions. Based on the result of this study/research; it is recommended that 5% inclusion or more of unsaturated fat source (groundnut oil) be used as supplement in meal of broiler diets.