Feeding groundnut-cake in combination with-sunflower seed-meal and mai
ze gluten-meal (GSM) or with mustard-cake and maize-gluten-meal (GMM)
significantly (P<0.05) depressed the body-weight gain of the broiler s
tarter chicks. Inclusion of fish-meal or meat-meal either at 4 or 8% t
o all vegetable protein diets, significantly improved weight gains. Ap
parent nitrogen absorbability (%) and metabolizable energy were not im
proved even by the supplementation of animal proteins.