Carcass Composition and Skeletal Muscle Distribution in Broilers Produced under Different Nutrition Regime-2. Male Broilers Fed for Rapid Later Growth Following Severe Nutritional Restriction during Early Growth

1. The results of a previous experiment indicated that chicks whose growth was severely restricted through under nutrition, had the larger than normal hind limb muscles relative to wing muscles at 21 days of age (Das et al., 2008). In this study, we investigated whether the large relative size of hind limb muscle was maintained in the broilers when their growth was accelerated after 3 weeks. 2. The chicks at 21 days of age, which were reared with layer grower (LG, ME 11.92MJ/kg, CP 170g/kg) or pre-layer (PL, ME 11.72MJ/kg, CP 140g/kg) feeds, had their growth accelerated by feeding a broiler finisher (BF, ME 13.47MJ/kg, CP 180g/kg) diet and were then killed at 80 days of age (LGBF80d and PLBF80d…