Use of Moringa oleifera in chickens and its effect on Productive and Economic parameters

This research was carried out at the Santa Inés farm (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Universidad Técnica de Machala), El Oro Province, Ecuador. The main objective to evaluate effect Moringa oleifera leaf meal on productive and economic parameters Cobb 500 chickens. For biosecurity well-being birds, a pre-established managemet for open-shed systems in area used, applying basic vaccination schedule experiment, Completely Random Design (CRD) applied, using 200 500, newborn mixed chickens (male female), distributed 5 treatments evaluated 35 days, each treatment had 4 experimental units 10 disposition groups as follows: control (T1) which only basal diet; T2, T3, T4 T5 1, 2, 3, 4% M. administered feed, respectively. variables were: live body weight, feed consumption accumulated water, conversion ratio, mortality, efficiency factor, kilograms meat per square meters (m2) expenses. To determine possible differences, statistical software Statgraphics Centurion XV.I.®, used. A parametric analysis one factor (ANOVA), prior assumptions normality homogeneity In order discriminate among means, Bonferroni multiple comparison procedure applied with confidence level 95%. results showed that there is an weight intake, because diets inclusion greater than 3% were negatively influenced first 3 weeks life animal, while rest not affected.