The study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation of turmeric powder and vitamin C on carcass characteristic of pratapdhan chicken. A total 160 numbers of day-old commercial Pratapdhan chicks with uniform of body weight were divided into 4 treatment groups with 4 replications, each consisting of 10 chicks following a completely randomized design. They will be reared under cage system of housing for six weeks with identical standard management practices. The birds were subjected to four dietary treatment containing basal ration as T1: (Basal diet) control, T2: Basal diet supplemented with 0.5% turmeric powder, T3: Basal diet supplemented with 300mg kg-1 vitamin C and T4: Basal diet supplemented with turmeric powder + 300 mg kg-1 vitamin C. At end of the experiment, 4 birds from each treatment groups randomly selected were slaughtered to obtain carcass characteristic data. Result showed that a live weight, dressed weight, eviscerated weight and giblet weight significantly highest in group of birds fed diets containing T4 group as compared to rest of the treatment groups but non-significant effect was found in dressing weight, eviscerated weight and giblet weight percentage among different treatment groups. B:C ratio was significantly higher in T4 group. The results of present investigation revealed that inclusion of T4 had positive effect on economic performance of Pratapdhan chicks

Chicks, Turmeric powder, Vitamin C and carcass yields

The supplementation of turmeric powder and vitamin C was found to be beneficial in Pratapdhan chicken rearing for its encouraging results the carcass traits like live weight, dressed weight, eviscerated weight and giblet weight Significantly higher fed with 0.5% turmeric powder and 0.5% turmeric powder+300 mg kg-1 vitamin C but Non-significant effect was found for dressed weight, eviscerated weight and giblet weight percentage in Pratapdhan chicken among different treatment groups. The supplementation of turmeric powder and vitamin C was found to be beneficial in Pratapdhan chicken rearing for its encouraging results in relation the overall performance and economics benefits

Manoj Jat, Manoj Kumar, Keshram Meena, Sunita Kumari Gurjar, Lokesh Gupta and J.L. Choudhary (2025). Effect of Dietary Supplementation of Turmeric Powder (Curcuma longa) and Vitamin C on Carcass Characteristic and Economics of Pratapdhan Chicken. Biological Forum, 17(4): 85-91