PRODUCTIVITY OF TURKEYS FED WITH A NEW MINERAL FEED ADDITIVE

Abstract

Recently, turkey farming has received the most attention in order to provide the population with highly nutritious dietary meat. The health benefits of turkey are also due to the fact that one serving of turkey meat contains a full daily allowance of omega-3-unsaturated fatty acids that improve cardiac function and increase brain activity. The purpose of our work was to study the effect of the mineral feed additive “Cu-Aktiv” on the productivity of the Big-6 cross turkeys. Scientific and economic experiment was carried out at the production site “Haisy” of JSC “Poultry farm “Gorodok” of Vitebsk region. It was found that the use of patented mineral feed additive “Cu-Aktiv” at the rate of 0.001% of compound feed provided an increase in the average live weight of turkey poults by 20.3%, average daily gain – by 20.5%, livestock livability – at least 93.5%, while reducing the feed consumption per product unit by 5.4%. Based on the positive results obtained, we recommend using the domestic mineral feed additive “Cu-Aktiv” in the diets of the Big-6 cross turkeys.