AUTHOR=Ginindza Muzi M. TITLE=Lucerne meal in the diet of indigenous chickens: a review JOURNAL=Frontiers in Animal Science VOLUME=4 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/animal-science/articles/10.3389/fanim.2023.1274473 DOI=10.3389/fanim.2023.1274473 ISSN=2673-6225 ABSTRACT=
Indigenous chicken production consists of an array of activities important to smallholder poultry farmers in Africa. One of the many factors influencing their production and threating the local food security is in the area of nutrition, particularly, that related to protein supplementation. The available feed resources to farmers are not enough to sustain the productivity of the chickens. Hence, the chickens’ diets often require nutritional supplementation. There is therefore an urgent need for the validation of locally grown feed ingredients to improve the sustainability of poultry production in sub-Saharan Africa. A dietary ingredient that may be used in the diets of chickens is lucerne (