TITLE:
Productive evaluation of slow-growing Mexican turkeys with different diets in confinement
AUTHORS:
Elizabeth Pérez-Lara, Marco Antonio Camacho-Escobar, Narciso Ysac Ávila-Serrano, Jaime Arroyo-Ledezma, Edgar Iván Sánchez-Bernal, Mabel Rodríguez-dela Torre, Virginia Reyes-Borques
KEYWORDS:
Creole Turkey; Cost of Feed; Fresh Forage; Guajolote; Meleagris Gallopavo; Traditional Diets
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Animal Sciences,
Vol.3 No.1,
January
29,
2013
ABSTRACT: Were assessed the
effect of five traditional diets backyard turkeys in confinement. The experiment
lasted 36 weeks, the turkeys were randomized to one of five diets: kitchen
waste + fresh forage (T1), kitchen waste (T2), commercial feed + fresh forage
(T3), cracked corn + fresh forage (T4) and commercial feed (T5). Food and water were provided ad libitum. Each treatment with birds of both sexes had
two repetitions with four birds and each bird was considered as an experimental unit. Were evaluated daily weight gain, total weight gain, final live weight, total length peak-tail, monthly gain peak-tail, total length,
total length of wings, monthly gain wings length, and feed cost. The data were
analyzed in a completely randomized arrangement with adjusted means and
Tukey’s mean comparison, then an evaluation of treatment groups by analyzing
clusters for semi quantitative data. The biggest daily gain, total weight gain
and final live weight was obtained with treatment T3, while the highest
increase in peak-length tail and wings was obtained with treatment T1 (P