Authors:
Md. Jahid Hasan ,Mst. Afroza Khatun ,Md. Kamruzzaman ,Md. Ahsan Habib ,Mustasim Famous and Md. Uzzal Hossain ,Bangladesh |
Abstract:
This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of dietary supplementation of Aloe vera gel on
production performance, dressing yield and hematological parameters of sonali chicken.
Methods: A total number of 180 day old chicks were randomly assigned into five treatment
groups namely (T0, T1, T2, T3 and T4) having three replication in each treatment group. Chicks
were brooded upto 7 days then randomly separated into pen upto 8 weeks. Each treatment group
contains 36 birds whereas each replication contain 12 birds. Experimental birds in T2, T3 and T4
were provided aloe vera gel @ 7.5,15, and 22.5 gm per litre drinking water while T0 was
provided only plain water and T1 provided 1ml amino plus per litre water those were maintained
as control group.
Results: The study indicated that final live weight gain and feed efficiency of birds was
significantly (p<0.05) higher that received @22.5gm/L aloe vera gel compared to control T0
while insignificant in commercial growth promoter group. This result also indicated that body
weight gain, feed intake and feed efficiency were increased along with increasing dose of aloe
vera gel. In meat yield parameters there were no significant difference among the treatment
group except breast meat weight. Blood parameters (RBC, PCV, Hb and Total WBC) showed
significant (p<0.05) difference among the treatment groups except the total white blood cells
(WBC) count. Aloe vera treated group T4 showed the lowest feed cost while untreated group
showed the highest price.
Conclusion: It could be concluded that the supplementation of aloe vera gel upto @22.5g/L
drinking water has the potentiality as growth promoter for production of sonali chicken. |
