ANALYTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMERCIAL POULTRY DIETS IN SENEGAL

Nutritional quality of commercial poultry diets was assessed in this s tudy. Fifty four food samples from the 10 main recorded manufactures i n Senegal (21 starter and 14 finisher broiler diets, 6 diets for the y oung hen and 13 for the layer hen) were chemically analyzed and values compared to recommendations. An excess in crude fiber, an often high crude protein content, a deficiency in lysin, in methionin, in threoni n and in phosphorus, and a phosphocalcic imbalance were established in most of foods. These nutritional imbalances have to be taken into con sideration, due to their adverse effects in poultry farming profitabil ity.