A study of the effect of replacing part of the soybeans in the diet of bean, chickpea and rice slurry in the diet of laying hens on the characteristics of egg production.

Abstract

This study was conducted on 16,000 laying hens distributed into four groups, the Qarna group and three other groups in which it was decided to replace part of the soybeans with green beans, chickpeas and rice slurry.The effect of these substances on the following characteristics has been studied:Number of eggs, egg production %, average egg weight, average daily feed consumption per chicken, average feed consumed per egg, average body weight and mortality percentage from week 23 to week 32 of the mother. The results showed that there were no significant differences at the level of probability 5% and 1% among the four treatments in relation to the number of eggs, egg production %, while the differences were significant at the level of probability 1% in relation to the amount of feed in the treatment in which chickpeas were used.