Enhancement of the Nutritive Value of Bagasse Using Chicken Manure (Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION Intensive chicken farming leads to solids disposal problems worldwide. While animal waste is commonly applied to farmland as a fertilizer, it is known to be more valuable as a feed nutrient [1]. Due to the high fiber and non-protein nitrogen content of the wastes, ruminants are best suited for utilization of the wastes [2]. Poultry Manure has a potential use as a ruminant feed in addition to its traditional use as fertilizer. It has been shown that poultry manure/litter is more valuable as a feed ingredient than as a fertilizer. In fact, the economic value of poultry manure/litter as a feed ingredient in balanced diets for several classes of ruminants is up to four times greater than its value as a fertilizer [3, 4]. In addition to offering an economic advantage, using poultry manure/litter as animal feed is environmentally friendly. Many of the nutrients in the broiler litter are redistributed on pastureland as cattle manure. The utilization of the waste through ruminant animals could thus become a convenient option of disposing the waste [3].