Evaluating Different Levels of Roasted Pigeon Pea (Cajanus Cajan) Meal on Growth Performance of Cockereal Koekoek Chicken Under Adami Tullu Agricultural Research Center, Oromia, Ethiopa

The experiment was conducted to evaluate effects of different level of roasted pigeon pea seed meal inclusion in diet of growing Cockereal Koekoek chicken. The compeletely randomized design was used to evaluate four dietary treatments. The roasted Pigeon Pea meal was included at levels of diet 0% (T1), 25% (T2), 30% (T3) and 35% (T4) in dietary treatments. Each treatment contained 8 chickens, totaling 128 chickens in the whole experiment. The study was conducted for for 84 days. The major factors studied were body weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion ratio (FCR). The results showed that both daily feed intake in T1 and T2 (74.89±12.78 g vs 73.09±13.4 g) and as well as T3 and T4 (71.70±14.2 g vs 69.16±14.43 g) were not statistically significant (P>0.05). On the other hand, there was a significantly lower (P<0.05) in daily body weight gain of chicken was observed in T4 (19.45±0.53 g) compared to the other treatments. There was no significant differences (P>0.05) among T1 (23.94±1.4 g), T2 (21.97±1.16 g) and T3 (21.6±0.6 g) in daily weight gain gram per bird. Significantly (P<0.05) lower FCR was observed in T1 (3.03± 0.54) compared to the rest treatments. However, were no significant differences in FCR T2 (3.33±0.61), T3 (3.31±0.67) and T4 (3.56 ±0.74). The selling price of cockerels chickens at end of experiment period chicken in T1 (Birr 271.67±5.77), T2 (Birr 257.67±17.04) and T3 (Birr 238.67±16.17) did not significantly differ (P>0.05). Similarly, the selling price of chickens in T3 (Birr 238.67±16.17) and T4 (Birr 217.67±10.78) also did not significantly differ (P>0.05). Whereas, there was a significant difference chickens selling price between the T1 (271.67±5.77) and T4 (Birr 217.67±10.78), and T2 (Birr257.67±17.04) T4 (Birr 217.67±10.78). From this study, net incomes of Birr 148.74, 138.25, 102.7 and 74.37 were obtained from T2, T1, T3 and T4, through selling chickens respectively. Generally, from the biological and economical point of view, the inclusion 25% of pigeon pea meal was recommended in diet cockerels’ koekoek chicken.