Growth Performance of Chicken Broilers Fed Sodium Sulphate and Fish Oil in Fish Meal-Free Ration

Fish meal is an integral part of broiler diet despite having issues like storage and randicity. The prices of fish meal suddenly shot up during COVID pandemic. Taking this problem in mind, the following experiment was carried out to study the growth performance of chicken broilers with Sodium Sulphate and Fish Oil supplementation in an is oproteneic and is oenergetic fish meal free ration. One hundred eighty, one-day-old broiler chicks of Ven-Cobb strain-400 were distributed into 4 treatment groups (T0, T1, T2 and T3) each having 45 chicks which were further divided into 3 replicates of 15 chicks in each replicate. A completely randomized design was followed. Initial body weight, weekly body weight and weekly feed intake were recorded and other production parameters were calculated on the basis of initially recorded readings. The combination of Sodium Sulphate and Fish Oil improved all parameters related to body weight and feed intake of chicken broilers in comparison to the control group. The mean FCR, mean cumulative FCR and mean phase-wise FCR of chicken broilers were better in Sodium Sulphate with the Fish Oil supplemented group. The inclusion of Sodium Sulphate with Fish Oil in ration also improved the performance index, protein efficiency, production number and energy efficiency of broilers. Therefore, combination of Sodium Sulphate and Fish Oil may possibly replace fish meal in the diet of chicken broilers.