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Dietary Supplementation of Phytobiotics on Production Performance of Nandanam Chicken-3

Author: K. Sangilimadan*, R. Richard Churchil, K. Premavalli and A.V. Omprakash

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Abstract

The improved meat purpose chicken varieties with fast growing abilities have been developed for rural poultry farming in India. The need for discontinuing antibiotic growth promoters has led to the search for herbal alternatives in poultry production. The dietary supplementation of phytobiotics on production performance of Nandanambroiler 3, is a synthetic cross for meat purpose was studied. One hundred and twenty, straight run one day old Nandanam chicks 3 (n=120) were allotted into four treatment of 30 chicks in three equal replicates. A common control diet was formulated for starting and finishing periods. The four dietary treatments were control (T1), control with 0.5% ginger paste (T2), control with 0.5% garlic paste (T3) and control with 0.5% turmeric powder (T4). The data on body weight, feed consumption and mortality were recorded biweekly; from which, weight gain and feed efficiency were calculated. The mean body weight at eighth week was significantly (P<0.01) higher in garli

Keywords

Body weight, Feed intake, Livability, Phytobiotic, Return over feed cost.

Conclusion

It can be concluded from this study that body weight, body weight gain and FCR can be improved in synthetic colour broiler strains by the supplementation of garlic and ginger at the rate of 0.5% in the feed. Better Return over Feed Cost (Rs/bird) and Return over feed cost (Rs./kg live weight) can also be achieved with the supplementation of above two herbal products; whereas, inclusion of ginger and turmeric can improvelivability. Therefore, for better production performance in meat type chicken, supplementation of garlic or ginger paste at 50g/100 kg feed is recommended

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How to cite this article

Sangilimadan, K., Churchil, R.R., Premavalli, K. and Omprakash, A.V. (2021). Dietary Supplementation of Phytobiotics on Production Performance of Nandanam Chicken-3. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 13(3): 625-630.