The demand increases for protein food for human consumption and animal feed resources has resulted to this innovative exploitation strategies that can reduce cost of feedstuffs, cost of production and improvement of supply as soon as possible. This study evaluates the potential of donkeys’ caecal meal (DCM) as an alternative protein feed resources and strategies aimed at achieving food/feed nutritional security in human and broiler diets. One hundred and fifty day old Anak breeds were used for the study. The birds were randomly assigned to five diets in a completely randomized design consisting of three replicates with 10 birds per replicate. Five experimental diets were formulated. Diets were substituted with donkeys’ caecal content meal such that diet 1 (T₁) served as control (0%). Diet 2 T₂ contained 2.5% DCM and diets 3, 4 and 5 (T₃, T₄ and T₅) contained 5.0%, 7.5%, 10% (DCM) respectively. The experiment lasted for eight weeks. The data were subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Duncan New multiple Range Test. The results revealed that birds fed diet (T₂) had significantly (P<0.05) improved body weight gain feed intake, superior feed conversion ratio than birds fed control diet (0% of the test diets. For cut-parts, birds fed diets 2 and 3 were significantly (P>0.05) the same except the wing/bird (g) and neck/bird (g). Although, diet (T₂) had highest (P<0.05) values in all the parameters, followed by diet T₃ in this experiment. The DCM could be substituted up to10% without any adverse effect on the broiler chickens.

Index Terms-Evaluation, Donkeys’ Caecal, Alternative Protein, Feedstuff, Broiler Chickens