Livestock Studies 1988, Vol 28, Num, 1-4     (Pages: 051-059)

THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FEED TEXTURE AND FEEDER SPACE ALLOWANCES CONSIDERING BROILERS

Erol ŞENGÖR 1

1 The Development Foundation of Turkey - A literature review was made concerning the possibility of interactions could have been occured between feed texture and feeder space allowances on the broiler performance.

Two significant interactions were found between feed texture and feeder, space allowances on weight gain (P<0.05) during the period of 28 to 56 days of age and on food consumption (P<0.01) during performed better with 38 mm of feeder per bird while those which received pellets performed better with 21 mm of feeder space per bird. Keywords :