Vol. 12, Issue 6 (2023)

Author(s):
ND Kadav, SL Khatke, DK Kokani, NP Kadam, NN Prasade and BG Desai

Abstract:
An experiment was conduct at poultry unit, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science, Dapoli to investigate the Effect of rearing systems on the growth performance and carcass quality of Giriraja birds. A day old 250 Giriraja chicks rearing in same block during brooding period up to 35 days. Then after 225 Giriraja chicks were divide into three treatments with five replications, thus each treatment having 75 birds. Treatment was deep litter system (T1), cage system (T2) and semi-intensive system (T3). Results of experiment showed that different rearing systems have significant (p<0.05) effect on feed intake during the experimental period which is lowest in treatment T3 (351.10 g/bird) and highest in treatment T1 (483.44g/bird), live body weight was lowest in treatment T3 (130.56 g/bird) and significantly highest in treatment T2 (160 g/bird) and body weight gain higher in treatment T2 (160.00 g/bird) and treatment T1 (144.94 g/bird) and T3 (130.56 g/bird) were at par each other. The feed conversion ratio was superior in treatment T2 (2.81).