The study aimed to evaluate the effect of supplementation an additive based on plant and spice extracts in broiler chicken diets productive performance, carcass yield, meat quality. 704 male chicks were distributed a completely randomized experimental design with 4 treatment, replicates 44 chickens each. consisted Diet 1: Control diet; 2: diet + antibiotic growth promoters (AGP); 3: vegetable (...

This study was undertaken to investigate the growth performance and immune responses of broiler chicks fed diets supplemented with conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). Two hundred and forty day-old Arbor Acre male broiler chicks were randomly allotted into four dietary treatments with different inclusion levels of CLA (0, 2.5, 5.0 or 10.0 g pure CLA/kg) for 6 weeks. Growth performance, lysozyme acti...

this study was carried out to determine nutritive value and the effect of amaranthus grain on performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chicks. chemical composition of amaranthus grain including dry matter, crude protein, crude fiber, crude ash, and gross energy were 91.04, 17.50, 8.40, 2.70, 5.41, percent and 4515 kcal/kg respectively. metabolizable energy content of amaranthus grain ...

this study was aimed to determine the effects of different dietary levels of methionine and protein on the growth performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chickens. a total of 240 broiler chicks were distributed into a completely randomized design with a 2 × 3 factorial arrangement. experimental factors were: two levels of protein (20% or 24% for starter and 18% or 22% for grower), an...

AIM The aim of this study was the assessment of various levels of date palm kernel (DPK) on the growth performance of broilers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 250-day-old broiler chicks were randomly selected and categorized into five groups (50 chicks/group) contained A (control), B, C, D and E fed with 0%, 1%, 2%, 3% and 4% levels of DPK in balanced ration, respectively, for 6 weeks. Feed and wate...

In this study, we examined the effects of formic acid administration to the drinking water on performance, intestinal microflora and carcass contamination in male broilers. A total of 312 day-old male broiler chicks were allocated to two groups with three replicates. The first group (control) received normal drinking water (pH 7.4) during the experiment. The second group consumed acidified drin...

Two hundred and forty Hubbard Classic broiler chicks were used in a 35 day trial at Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Science University farm, Bangladesh to study the effects of supplemental choline chloride on performance parameters, carcass characteristics and their association in commercial broiler. All birds had free access to ad libitum feeding. Birds were fed four types of diet i.e. diet w...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of adding a commercial medicinal plant (mp) powder containing garlic (allium sativum) and thyme (thymus vulgaris) to diets that included olive pulp (op), on the performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chicks. a total of 240 day old male ross-308 broiler chicks were allocated into six iso-nitrogenous and iso-energetic dietary groups with...

to study the effect of herb ginger powder on performance, carcass characteristics and blood parameters of broilers used from 192 broiler chicks (ross ) in a completely randomized design with 4 treatments and 4 replicates ( each replicate of 12 chicks ). all treatments, including different levels of ginger powder ratios of 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5 percent respectively called t1, 2t, t3 and t4 that were ad...