Scrutinization of Dried Bakery Waste as Maize Substitute in Quail Ration by Evaluating the Growth and Nutrient Utilization

Abstract

Background: The present study evaluated the bread bakery waste (BaW) containing ration on growth and nutrient utilization of meat quail. Methods: Three hundred straight run, day old quail chicks of same hatch were randomly divided into five treatment groups, namely T0 (maize-soya based basal ration, containing no BaW), T1 (5% maize in quail ration was replaced with BaW), T2 (containing 10% BaW as maize replacement), T3 (15% BaW as maize replacement) and T4 (20% BaW as maize substitute). All the diets formulated were isocaloric and isonitrogenous. Experimental trial lasts for 42 days. Different growth traits viz., feed intake (FI), body weight (BW), body weight gain (BWG), feed conversion ratio (FCR) and protein efficiency ratio (PER) was measured weekly. A metabolism trial of 4 days was carried out after 28 days of feeding trial and economics was also calculated. Result: Results revealed no adverse effect of replacing maize flakes with BaW up to 20% on different growth traits viz. weekly FI, BW, BWG, FCR and PER. The metabolizability of nutrients also remained statistically similar irrespective of different dietary treatments. But, Cost benefit ratio was better in T0 and T1 followed by T2 and T3 and was least in T4. It may be concluded that maize flakes can be safely replaced by BaW up to 15% in quail ration in an economical manner.