deutscher tropentag 2004 berlin october 5 7 conference on international agricultural research for development expanding rural poultry production through thr use of low cost cassava fruit coat as alternative fibre source broilers eustace ayemere iyayi 1 2 and folasade kehinde fayoyin institut für enährungswissenchaften martin luther universität emil abderhaldenstr 26 06108 halle germany department animal science university ibadan nigeria abstract the replacement value a by product harvesting cfc meal wheat bran wb broiler was investigated produced milling dried fruits often discarded after roots stems used to replace 25 50 75 100 w in basal diet seventy five one week old chicks were distributed into 15 pens each holding birds experimental diets allocated at random 3 end first 4 weeks starter phase switched finisher further period feed water supplied ad libitum data recorded analysed pen basis had