Performance of turkey fed with dehydrated food waste based rations in free range and cages systems

• Main Author: Che Mohd Roslie, Mimi Rosyazarina
• Format: Project Paper Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/90243/1/FP%202015%20187%20-%20IR.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/90243/

The tittle of this research is performance of turkey fed with dehydrated food waste based rations in free range and cages systems.The aim for this research is to evaluate the effect of dehydrated food waste on performance of turkey in free range system (FRS) and cages system (CS). The main objective of this study is to compare the performance of turkey reared under free range system and cages systems. The specific objectives are i) to evaluate the growth performance of turkey fed with dehydrated food waste based ration in free range and cages system, ii) to identify the flock behaviour of turkey fed with dehydrated food waste based ration in free range and cages system and lastly is iii) to compare the carcass quality of turkey fed with dehydrated food waste based ration in free range and cages system. This research has been done in Ladang 2, Universiti Putra Malaysia.There are two treatment in this research which is free range system and cages system.There are 18 turkey in free range system and 18 turkeys in cages system. The turkeys are being fed with processed dehydrated food waste as the main ingredient. The water and feed were given itolic.The flock behaviour of turkey was recorded weekly. This is to ensure the turkey shows normal behaviour. The behaviour is important to observe wether the turkey is in comfort or not. The turkeys has been slaughtered in week 12 to evaluate the carcass quality. The carcass quality has been done by separate the carcass in two part. For the left part,the debonning process and the right part is for commercial cutting. The parameter measured were weekly body weight, weekly body weight gain, mortality rate, flock behaviour, feed and grass analysis, weekly feed intake, feed conversion ratio (FCR) and carcass quality. The feeds that were given to the turkey was formulated from the dehydrated food waste and processed. The food waste has been collected from restaurant and drying the food waste under the sunlight. Then, the dried food waste has been process and mixing with other ingredients such as rice bran, fish meal, vitamin, mineral, oils, limestone and salt. The feeds that has been process is mash form and can give directly to the turkey. The mean body weight in free range system shows slightly higher weight compare to cages system but not significantly different (P>0.05). The mortality rate also shows not significant different between these two types of system. No significant different in feed conversion ratio between free range and cages systems. There are significant different between some parts of carcass such as weight of carcass, weight of wing and fat from both system. In conclusion, turkey from free range system show better body weight than cages system.This is because the turkey in free range system has more space compare to cages system. Besides that, the turkey in free range also have extra feed from ground such as grass and insect.