PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF SESAME SEEDS IN BROILER RATION TO ENHANCE THE PRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE
The experiment was carried out in the scientific research hall of the Animal Production Department/ College of Agriculture over the period from 13/8/2018 to 14/9/2018. Aim of the experiment was investigating the effect of sesame seeds in broiler rations (as a source of protein, energy, vitamins, and minerals) to enhance their productive performance. Rose broilers were randomly distributed into four experimental treatments, were fed with four rations with varying protein percentages (21, 20.2, 20.2 and 21%) with energy (3110, 3110, 3028 and 3000 Kcal/Kg diet, with replacement ratios of sesame seeds (0, 30, 25 and 20%) of the basic ration components for the experimental treatments (T1, T2, T3 and T4) respectively. respectively, over the experimental treatments until the age of marketing at 32 day. Third treatment (T3) differed significantly (p>0.05) in productive indicators over all the experiment period until the age of marketing upon Treatments (T2 and T4) with qualitative measurements such as daily feed intake, body weight, feed conversion, and mortality percentage, although, there were no differences between it and the control treatment (T1).