Response of broiler chickens to diets of varying protein contents under ad libitum and skip-a-day feeding regimes

Poultry raised intensively requires more nutrients than other stocks and their requirements are often specific as stated in poultry nutrition texts. An ideal broiler diet is one that will maximize production at the least cost. Although a costly diet may produce phenomenal gains in livestock, the cost per unit of production may make the diet economically infeasible. Likewise, the cheapest diet will not always be the best since it may not allow for maximum production. An experiment was used to investigate the effect of varying dietary crude protein levels; optimum, low and high diets, fed ad libitum and on skip-a-day bases on the performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chickens.