Effects of feeding mung beans (Vignaradiate)‎ on the broiler performance

Abstract EN

This experiment was carried out at the poultry research farm belonging to Faculty of Agriculture Science, Sulaimani University Bakrajo during the period from 24/10/2014 to 10/12/2014.

This experiment was designed to study the effect of feeding different levels of mung beans (Vignaradiata) on the broiler performance.

A total of 99 one-day old broiler chicks (ross 308) were randomly divided in to three experimental treatments with 3 replicates, each replicate contains 11 birds reared on floor cages.

The first group was considered as (control) while the second group fed on diet, had 5% mung bean and the third group, received diet contain 10% mung bean.

The effects of feeding mung beans at various two levels on the performance of young broiler chicks, for both trials there was no significant effect (P≥0.05) of diet contain mung beans on weight gain or feed conversion of broilers.