NAME: JAMAL ARAD DAVID LENDOR

CANDIDATE NUMBER:

SCHOOL: POINT FORTIN WEST SECONDARY SCHOOL

TITLE: THE EFFECTS OF THE TYPE OF FEED RATIONS ON

WEIGHT GAIN OF BROILERS AT POINT FORTIN WEST
SECONDARY SCHOOL.

START: 11/10/2017

END: 27/11/2017
 TABLE OF CONTENT

INRTODUCTION

PROBLEM STATEMENT

HYPOTHESIS

AIM

METHODOLOGY

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

DATA COLLECTION

PRODUCTION PRACTICES/ACTIVITIES

PICTURES

COLLECTED DATA

RESULTS

DISCUSSION

CONCLUSION

LIMITATIONS

RECOMMENDATIONS

REFERENCE

COST ANALYSIS
 INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND:

Broiler chickens are any chicken that is bred and raised specially for meat
production. Many typical broilers have white feathers and yellowish skin.
Broilers are also rich in phosphorus. Phosphorus is an essential mineral that
hardens and supports the teeth and bones.

PROBLEM STATEMENT:

Our agriculture class was to carry out a tasked on to find out if chicken gain
more weight if they are fed finisher ration or finisher crack corn.

HYPOTHESIS:

Broilers weight that is gained is affected by the types of feed they consume.

AIM:

This is to determine if crack corn affects the weight gain in broilers.

 METHODOLGY

EQUIPMENT: MATERIAL:

Shovel Finisher
Rubber boots Red cell
Stove Ctc
Scale Saw dust
Thermometer Crack corn
Rake Water
Cobweb broom Black disinfectant
Hard broom Starter ration
Waterier Newspapers
Feeder
Hose

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

This experiment was conducted on the farm at lunch time, where forty one
day old broiler chickens were placed in an brooder area for 3 weeks,
separated into two pens which one was labeled treatment (Pen T) and the
other labeled control (Pen C). Both pens contained 7cm in height of sawdust,
with waterier and feeders placed in them. The pen, which was labeled T was
given 2:1 ratio of finisher and crack corn, while the pen which labeled T was
given finisher only.

DATA COLLECTION

The tables below and results were used to plot a graph using the following
data.

BROILER LIVEABILITY:

Below is a table that shows the number of broilers that were alive after the
experiment.
BROILER AVERAGE LIVEWEIGHT:

The chickens were weighed once every week until the experiment was
finished. From week 5-7 this information was used to calculate the average
live weight of the chickens.

PHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS:

The broilers were checked every day for the duration, to ensure they were
strong and healthy.

PRODUCTION PRACTICES/ACTIVITIES

1. Safety Clothing: coverall, gloves, rubber boots, black disinfectant,

broom, watering can, coverall.

Activity: Cleaning & Disinfectant Pen

Procedure: First, I began cleaning the pens by using a cobweb broom

to clean the walls of the pen. After this the floor was swept. Then the
walls and the floor were swept. Then the walls and floor were washed
using a hose. Then I mixed 10ml of black disinfectant into a gallon of
water in a watering can. Then with the watering can, I spread
disinfectant all over the pen. After I used the hand broom to scrub the
floor of the pen, then I washed it out. The pen was then left to air dry
for 2 to 3 days.

2. Safety Clothing, Material and equipment: Coverall, gloves, boots,

saw dust, newspaper, waterier, feeder, bulb, baby chicks, measuring
scale, electrolyte and thermometer.

Activity: Preparation of the Brooder Area.

Procedure: After the pen was dried an are of 2*2m was blocked off,
then placed sawdust inside the pen and used a rake to spread it evenly
across the area with an height of 7cm was the saw dust when I
 finished spreading. Then I placed newspapers over the sawdust, so it
cannot cause the chicken to choke, after testing the temperature using
a thermometer. Then we placed 2 baby waterier after washing them
and full them with water. Also in 1 feeder we placed ctc 10ml per
water filling then with start ration. After we weighed the chickens to
get an average weight, then place the chicken back in the pens.

3. Safety Clothing, material and equipment: Coverall, gloves, rubber

boots, respirator, measuring scale, ctc, red cell, starter ration, finisher
ration.

Activity: Changing of waterier and feeding chickens

Procedure: Every day the waterier were removed from the pen
washed out and refilled and placed back into the pen. For the first 3
weeks ctc was added to one of the waterier once per week, after it was
refilled, we also weighed the feed and then placed it into the feeder
everyday.

4. Safety Clothing, Material and Equipment: coverall, gloves, rubber

boots and measuring scale.

Activity: Weighing of chickens

Procedure: Once every week chickens from both the control and
treatment pen were weighed. Their weights were observed and
recorded on a table.

5. Safety Clothing, Material and Equipment: Coverall, gloves, rubber

boots, respirator, saw dust, rake, wheel barrow.

Activity: Slaughter of broiler chickens.

Procedure: Before the chickens were slaughtered they were all

weighed. The chicks were killed by cutting the jugular vein using a
sharp knife, allowing the blood to drain for 2 minutes. The chicken
 was then placed into some warm water with a temperature of 60
degrees Celsius to allow the feathers to be removed easier when being
plucked. The skin of the chicken feet was also removed along with the
feathers. Afterwards the guts were removed after cutting around the
vent area of the chicken and removing its internal organs. The inside
of the chicken was washed out and cut up into small pieces. After the
chicken was cut up into small pieces, which was then placed into a
plastic bag where the internal organs such as the heart, liver, and
gizzard was put aside to be weighted. This was weighed to calculate
the dressing percentage.

6. Safety Clothing, Material and Equipment: Coverall , gloves ,

rubber boots , respirator , saw dust , rake , wheel barrow.

Activity: litter management

Procedure: Once every week the wet saw dust was removed and
replaced with new sawdust to prevent the chickens from contracting
diseases.

7. Safety Clothing: Coverall, gloves, rubber boots, measuring scale.

Activity: Sale of Chickens

Procedure: Before selling the chicken, each was weighed using the
scale and sold live.
 RESULTS

BROILER LIVABILITY:

Table #1 showing the broilers that survived over the experimental

period.
All birds (22) survived in both treatment and control pens.

Table #1: Livability of Broiler birds over experiment period:

Number of broiler
survived
TIME (Weeks) Treatment pen Control pen
3 22 22
4 22 22
5 22 22
6 22 22
7 22 22

25

20
No. of broiler surviving

15

10

0
3 4 5 6 7
Weeks

Treatment pen Control pen

FIGURE 2: BROILER LIVEABILITY

BROILER AVERAGE LIVE WEIGHT: (LB) table 2 shows the average

live weight of the broilers from week 3-6 of the experiment.

TABLE 2: Broiler live weight over experiment period

Weight (1b)
Time (week) Treatment pen Control pen
3 1½ 1½
4 2 2¼
5 3¼ 3½
6 4½ 4¾
7 5¾ 6 3/4

8
7
6
WEIGHT (LB)

5
4
3
2
1
0
3 4 5 6 7

TIME (WEEKS)

Treatment pen Control pen

DISCUSSION

BROILER LIVEABILITY:
The factors that allowed all the broiler chicks to survive are: They were kept
in a warm temperature by a light bulb in the brooder area. They were also
well fed and kept healthy, because they had a constant supply of food when
they wanted and also water, which allow them to gain weight and mass
faster. They were also given eletrolyte and red cell which helped them to
cope with the sorroundings in the pen.

AVERAGE LIVE WEIGHT:

The broiler chicks in the treatment pen which were fed ration containing
both crack corn, which was weighed less. In our project the broiler chickens
in the control pen were heavier than the broiler chicks in the treatment pen.

PHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS:

In the process of doing the experiment we found maggots living in the

sawdust. These maggots came from fly’s faeces, and the wetting of the
sawdust from the waterier.

CONCLUSIN

In this experiment results that were collected are from testing of crack corn
fed by broiler chickens. We discovered that the weights of broilers in the
control pen which was not fed crack corn, weighed more than the treatment
which was fed crack corn and finisher.
LIMITATIONS

There were things that could not be controlled such as, the amount of feed
consumed by the chickens and the temperature of the light.

RECOMMENDATIONS

I think that the experiment results would be more accurate if there were
more broilers in each pen. Also broilers should be fed more crack corn
because they gained more size consuming it.