Abstract

This experiment was conducted at the agricultural department in the ministry of science and technology study The effect of sex and slaughter age on performance and carcass cuts in ROSS 308 broilers . one hundred eighty one day old ROSS 308 broilers were fed the starter diet to the age of 28 day. Then sexed , males and females were separated and fed the grower diet to the age of slaughter . 20 birds were slaughtered 5 male and 5 females at the age of 42 days and another 5 males and 5 females at the age of 49 days. Live body weight , feed intake , weight gain and feed conversion ratio were calculated. After slaughter , dressing percent , carcass weight , cuts weights and giblets weights were recorded. Results showed significant increase in males for live body weight , weight gain , feed conversion ratio , dressing percent and breast percentage weight . sex had a significant effect on performance , while age of slaughter had an effect on carcass components percentages .

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