The effects of selected herbal dietary supplements on the growth performance and carcass quality of broiler chicken were investigated. Three hundred and eight day-old, male broiler chicks of Indian River strain were randomly allotted to seven experimental diets namely negative control, 0.0125% flavomycin (positive control), 0.1% Moringa leaf powder (MLP), 0.05% Moringa leaf powder, 0.035% Zigbi...

An experiment with male layer-type chickens of the Lohmann Brown Classic breed was carried out at Institute Animal Science-Kostinbrod, Bulgaria, aiming to investigate effect age slaughter on meat quality. The birds were reared in a controlled microclimate, an initial stocking density 22 birds/m2. At five weeks age, fragmentation applied, decreasing number seven Chickens slaughtered and nine ave...

the present study was carried out to examine the effects of a vitamin premix (vp) reduction or withdrawal from finisher diet (29-43 days) on performance, immuno-competence, and characteristics of leg bones and meat lipid oxidation of chickens fed on corn-soybean meal based diet. a total of 900 male broiler chickens (ross 308) were allocated to five treatment groups (0, 33%, 66%, 100% and 133% v...

the objective of the present study was to determine the effects of different levels of l-arginine in the diet on the growth performance, carcass traits, and blood parameters of female ross broiler chickens within their starter period. a number of, 192 day old female ross broiler chickens were fed with 4 dietary treatments in a completely randomized design, each dietary treatment had 4 replicati...

the present study was done to study the effects of water hypericum perforatum extract (whpe) on performance, abdominal fat, carcass characteristics, and blood biochemical parameters of broilers with 160 day-old ross 308. broilers were randomly distributed among the16 experimental units of four treatments with four replications (10 birds in each replicate) for 42 days. the treatments were includ...