RESPONSE OF BROILER CHICKENS TO DIETARY SUPPLEMENTATION OF GINGER (ZINGIBER OFFICINALE) CONTINUOUSLY OR INTERMITTENTLY IN COMPARISON WITH PREBIOTICS | ||
| Egyptian Poultry Science Journal | ||
| Article 13, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2017, Pages 523-543 PDF (727.07 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| Authors | ||
| Youssef abd elwahab Attia1; Saber Shihata Hassan2 | ||
| 1Arid Land Agriculture Department, Faculty of Meteorology, Environment and Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80208, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia | ||
| 2Department of Animal and Poultry Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Beheira, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Arbor Acres broiler chickens (n=140), 7-day-old, were used in a straight-run complete randomized experimental design. The broilers were distributed among four treatment groups with five replicates per treatment and seven chickens per replicate. During the experimental period (7-42 day-old), the chickens were fed iso-caloric and iso-nitrogenous diets with ginger (Zingiber officinale) level of 0.5% given either continuously or intermittently (two treatments), mannanoligosaccharide (MOS) of 0.05%, and the unsupplemented control. The objective of this study was to study the response of broiler chickens to continuous or intermittent supplementation with ginger as phytogenic additive compared with MOS on performance and cost of supplementation. The intermittent treatment was given as two days per week. Feeding 0.5% ginger resulted in higher body weight gain (BWG), European production efficiency factor (EPEF) and economic efficiency (EE) than MOS, however, feed conversion ratio (FCR) was similar among different experimental groups. Ginger level of 0.5% continuously decreased serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST), increased serum globulin, and 0.5% ginger intermittently increased antibody titer to Newcastle disease virus (NDV). Ginger given continuously or intermittently significantly decreased meat lipids and plasma glucose with intermittent supplementation showed stronger effect on meat lipids than continuous supplementation. Hence, it could be concluded that 0.5% ginger given continuously can replace MOS as a prebiotic without negative effects on productive performance, carcass traits, meat quality, blood constituents and immune response as compared with the control and this warrant further investigation. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Ginger; Broilers; productive performance; physiological traits; Immune Response | ||
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