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A 63 days study was conducted at the poultry experimental station of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi, Nigeria. In the study, one hundred and ninety-two (192) day-old mixed-sexed broiler chicks of strain Arbor Acres were randomly allotted to four dietary treatment groups with different fish meal inclusion levels (0, 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5 %) for treatment A, B, C and D respectively. Each treatment had four replicates with twelve birds per replicate in a completely randomized design. The initial body weight, final body weight, total weight, daily feed intake, total feed intake and feed conversion ratio had no significant (P>0.05) effects when other diets (treatments B, C and D) were compared to the control (treatment A). Likewise, all carcass parameters were not significantly affected (P>0.05) by the dietary treatments except the kidney. Kidney of birds fed diet B (1.5 %) fishmeal inclusion level was significantly (P0,05) au moment de la comparaison des autres régimes (traitements B, C et D) avec le traitement témoin. De même, aucun paramètre de la carcasse n’a été significativement affecté (P> 0,05) par les traitements diététiques à l’exception du rein. Les paramètres des reins des oiseaux soumis au régime B (1,5%) étaient significativement (P |
