Abstract

To evaluate the replacement level of bakery biscuit waste (BBW) as maize substitute, three hundred day-old straight run broiler chicks were allocated into five treatment groups namely T0 (maize-soybean based basal ration, containing no BBW), T1 (5% maize flakes, MF were replaced with BBW), T2 (10% MF replaced with BBW), T3 (15% MF replaced with BBW) and T4 (20% MF replaced with BBW). These replacements were made throughout the trial (6 weeks) in such a fashion that all diets formulated were isocaloric and isonitrogenous. There were four replicates in each dietary group (n=60 birds per group; 15 birds per replicate). Results revealed that feed intake (FI, g) remained unaffected during the first two weeks, but was significantly (P

Key words: Broiler, bakery biscuit waste, maize replacement.