National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A study was carried out to determine the growth performance of Nandanam II turkeys under intensive systems of management in TANUVAS – RREC, Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu. A commercial breed of new strain turkey, Nandanam -II turkey was used. In this study, Birds were kept in an enclosed deep litter poultry house (intensive system) in TANUVAS –RREC Turkey unit from 0 to 8 weeks (brooder) and 9 to 16 weeks in grower shed and fed with turkey brooder and grower mash and supplement diets respectively. Parameters assessed in this study was hatch weight, body weight at 4 weeks intervals upto 16th week, feed intake, feed conversion ratio were recorded. Results of feed intake and body weight showed a consistent increase with increase in age. Performance results showed that turkey had 50.51±0.41 gm, 391.71±4.60gm, 1289.75±15.84gm, 2235.15±16.43gm, 3209.42±34.73gm hatching weight, fourth week body weight, eighth week body weight, 12th week body weight, sixteenth week body weight, , respectively. It can be concluded that, the rearing of Nandanam -II turkey is possible under intensive system of rearing in the Pudukkottai district.
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