The effect of black seed Nigella sativa L.on some physiological blood parameters for domestic dove Columba livia domestica | ||
journal of kerbala university | ||
Article 1, Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2016, Pages 77-80 PDF (0 K) | ||
Abstract | ||
The current study was collcted to determine the effect of adding different levels of black seed Nigella sativa L. powder to ordinary feed of doves in some of hematological parameters of domestic doves , and use in the experiment (40) Males and females of domestic doves , divided into four groups and by (10) doves for each group , doves were fed to ordinary birds feed and over (7) weeks , where the first group left as control , while added (2) , (4 ) and (8 ) grams of black seed powder per kilogram of normal feed for the second, third and fourth group respectively .The results showed that the addition of ( 2) and ( 4) grams of black seed powder to the ordinary feed had an impact and is not significant (P ≥ 0.05) in the increased rates of the total number of red blood cells (RBCs) and the total number of white blood cells (TLCs) and packed cell volume (PCV) and hemoglobin concentration (Hb) and the percentage of Lymphocytes, while the increase was significant (P ≤ 0.05) in these parameters, when add (8) grams of black seed powder to normal feed, Compared to the control group . We conclude from this study that the black seed powder effective in improving of some hematological parameters in the domestic doves. | ||
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