Black Australorp and PK chickens had higher dressing percentage compared to OV at higher inclusion levels of MOLM. This could be ascribed to genetic variation and growth potential of the different strains. Male chickens had higher (P o 0.05) carcass weights than female chickens strains. These findings are in agreement with Lazzari and Paganni (1999), who noticed a significant difference (P o 0.05) in carcass weights between gender and strains of broilers.However, in male chickens carcass traits were similar across all diets.
The positive response of chickens to the dilution of a commercial broiler finisher diet with MOLM confirms that MOLM can be used as a source of feed for extensivelyreared chickens without any negative effects on growth performance and carcass characteristics.