Vol. 4 (1) : January-February 2013 issue
Green Farming Vol. 4 (1) : 106-109 (January-February, 2013)
Production performance of commercial broiler influenced with herbal drugs
SHAILESH BHUSHAN SRIVASTAVA1, RAM NIWAS2* and D.P. SINGH3
Deptt. of Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005 (Uttar Pradesh)
Designation : 1,2Res. Scholar *(ramniwasbhu@gmail.com), 3Professor
Subject : Agronomy and Crop Production
Paper No. : P-0548
Total Pages : 4
Received : 11 October 2012
Revised accepted : 15 January 2013
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Citation :
SHAILESH BHUSHAN SRIVASTAVA, RAM NIWAS and D.P. SINGH. 2013. Production performance of commercial broiler influenced with herbal drugs. Green Farming Vol. 4 (1) : 106-109 ; January-February, 2013
ABSTRACT
Ninty nine, day old commercial broiler chicks (VenCobb 400) were divided into groups of 33 birds in each and assigned three treatment diets with three replicate of 11 broilers each with the aim to determine the effect of indigenous herbal drug (Withania somnifera, Asparagus racemosus, Mucuna pruriens) supllementation in diets on production performance parameters in broilers. All the birds were fed basal diets and in treatment groups; T2 group birds were supplemented with 50 ml market herbal drug (Livkey) per kg feed and T3 group birds were supplemented with 2% of indigenous herbal drug per kg feed. Experiment was conducted for 42 days. Birds that fed indigenous herbal drug & marketed herbal drug in diets show the significant effect on body weight gain, feed consumption, feed conversion ratio, performance efficiency factor and dressing percentage. Thus, the result shows that the indigenous herbal drug (T3) having a significant efffect on the overall performance of the broiler chicken than marketed herbal drug (T2) and followed by control group (T1) during summer season.
Key words :
Broiler, Indigenous herbal drug, Production performance and diets.
