THE EFFECTS OF BEE POLLEN ON THE GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF COBB BROILERS

The effects Bee pollen (BP) on the growth performance of Cobb broilers was conducted to specifically evaluate the water consumption, feed consumption, weight gain, feed conversion ratio, mortality rate and income over feed and chick cost from April 19 to May 23, 2017 at the College of Agriculture Poultry Project, Mindanao State University, Fatima, General Santos City. The study was laid out in a completely randomized design (CRD). A total of 36 heads Cobb broilers were distributed to three treatments, T1 (control), T2 (500mg Bee pollen/Li water) and T3(1000mg Bee pollen/ Li water) with three replications and four birds assigned to each replicate. The study revealed that the experimental water rations had no significant difference between means on all parameters measured. However, it has been observed that the birds given 500mg Bee pollen gave the highest IOFCC (P26.7), followed by birds given plain water (P24.5) and lastly, birds given 1000mg Bee pollen obtained the lowest IOFCC of P19.9.