THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT LEAF MEALS ADDED TO COMMERCIAL RATION ON THE GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF COBB BROILERS

This study was conducted at Mindanao State University, Fatima Campus, General Santos City from February. 13 to March 20,2018 to determine the effects of different kinds of leaf meals added to commercial ration on the growth performance of Cobb broiler chicken. A Complete Randomized Design (CRD)with four treatments replicated three times was used in this study. The treatments were: T1100% Chick booster, T25% Cassava, T35% T4Ipil-ipil,5%Camachile.All are highly significant on feed consumption, live weight gain and feed conversion ratio among all the treatments except Treatment 1 which is the 100% chick Booster. In terms of feed consumption, birds in T1 had the highest feed consume with 3.53kg, followed by birds in T2 and T4 and then T3. Live weight gain in T1 is the highest followed by T4, T3 and T2 With 1.67Kg, 1.66Kg and 1.57Kg respectively. Meanwhile, most efficient feed converters was observed in T1 with 1.99 FCR followed by T4, T2 and T3 with 2.07,2.08 and 2.19, respectively. Statistical analysis in feed consumption, live weight gain, and feed conversion ratio revealed high significant differences. Highest economic returns over feed and chick cost was observed in birds in T1.