Use of Saw Dust as a Feed Ingredient of Geese Ration

Abstract

An experiment was conducted with 3 months old 8 geese and continued up to 60 days to determine whether Saw Dust could be used as a feed ingredient in geese ration. The geese were randomly allotted to 2 groups and 4 geese in each group. Both of the groups were reared under confined rearing system. One group was treated with 25% Saw Dust containing ration and other group was treated with Saw Dust free ration. 25% Saw Dust containing ration was prepared by replacing 250gm of formulated ration with 250gm Saw Dust. The geese were fed with 500gm of feed per day per geese, 1st 250gm of feed was provided in the morning and the next 250gm of feed was provided in the afternoon. Body weight gain of the geese was measured at one month interval. Body weight gain was measured by deducting the initial weight from the final weight. From the body weight gain, average body weight gain was calculated. Average body weight gain after one month for Saw Dust containing ration and Saw Dust free ration were 0.2125 Kg and 0.2875 Kg respectively and after two months the weight were 0.650 Kg and 0.7125 Kg respectively. On the basis of cost of producing average body weight, cost of producing 1 Kg body weight was calculated for the geese of the both groups. After calculation, it revealed that cost of producing 1 Kg meat in case of Saw Dust containing ration feeding was 663.92 Tk./ bird and for Saw Dust free ration feeding the cost was 765.47 Tk./ bird. From the calculation it was clear that for producing 1 Kg geese meat, cost of Saw Dust free ration is much more higher than that of Saw Dust containing ration (101.55 Tk./ bird). So, it can be concluded that use of Saw Dust @ 25% in geese ration had no deleterious effect on geese diet. It may be used in geese ration with safe level. It reduced the feed cost in comparison to Saw Dust free ration. Though body weight gain in case of Saw Dust feeding was comparatively slightly lower but it was recovered by saving excess feed cost of Saw Dust free ration.