The present research was aimed at analyzing the performance and the chemical composition of the chicken meat (chest and thigh/on-thigh) fed with different rations containing fish meal or white oat. Five treatments with 5 repetitions with 10 birds for each experimental unit had been tested, totalizing 250 animals created, from 1 to 40 days old. The chickens had been lodged in cages receiving rations contend 4.5% and 9% of fish meal, or, 10% and 20% of white oat, and the control diet. The chemical analyses of humidity, ashes, rude protein and ether extract were done in an animal for each repetition. It was not observed difference (P>0.05) for the ration consumption, gain of daily weight and alimentary conversion. There was no difference (P>0.05) in the chemical composition of the chest broiler meat. In the thigh/on-thigh analyzed, the treatment including 9% of fish meal provided significant increase of lipids in relation to the control diet and to that including 20% of white oat ration. It is conclude, that it is possible to use the 4 types of rations tested without intervening in the birds performance, being that, the 9% of fish flour inclusion and 10% of oat had increased the lipids in the chickens thigh/on-thigh meat.
birds; animal feeding; quality of meat
