Effect of dietary supplementation with different levels of rocket salad (Eruca sativa) seeds powder on blood plasma traits of White Hy – line laying breeder hens | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University For Agriculture Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 98-106 | ||
| Authors | ||
| ; Hazim J. Al | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of adding different levels of rocket salad (Eruca sativa) to the diet on physiological performance of laying breeder hens. A total of 96 White Hy – Line laying breeder hens, 32 weeks of age were used in this study. Hens were randomly distributed into 4 treatment groups of 3 replicates each and each replicate constituted of 8 hens (24 hens for each treatment groups). Experimental treatments were as following: T1: control group (Without any addition to the diet), T2, T3, and T4: adding rocket salad seeds at levels 1, 2, and 3 Kg / ton of the diet, respectively. Rocket salad seeds were added to the diet of birds from 34 weeks of age to the end of experiment which lasted 24 weeks. At the end of each month of experiment blood was collected from 9 hens in each treatment group to evaluate concentration of glucose, total protein, cholesterol, calcium and phosphorus and activities of GOT, GPT , ALP enzymes in blood plasma.Results revealed that supplementation of the hens ration with rocket salad seeds resulted in significant increase as regards concentration of total protein, calcium, and phosphorus and activity of ALP enzyme in blood plasma and significant decrease concerning activities of GOT and GPT enzymes in blood plasma during most months of experiment and with relation to the total mean of these traits. However, it was found that there were no significant differences between treatments TI, T2 and T4 with respect to total means of concentrations of glucose and cholesterol in blood plasma, whereas there were significant decrease regarding the total mean of these two traits in T3 as compared with T1. In conclusion supplementing diet of hen with rocket salad seeds resulted in improvement as concerns blood plasma constituents included in this study. Therefore, rocket salad seeds could be used as an important tool for improving physiological performance of chickens. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Rocket Salad; blood plasma; laying breeder | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 196 PDF Download: 150 |
||