Effect of Adding Different Concentrations of Nigella sativa and Artemisia herba powder and their combination in the Ration on Productive Performance of Broiler | ||
| Al-Anbar Journal of Veterinary Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2012, Pages 177-187 | ||
| Author | ||
| M. A. Al- Noori | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This experiment aimed to study the effect the adding different levels powder of Nigella sativa and Artemisia herba individually and in solidarity in the diet on the productive performance of broiler chicken. A total of 315 day old, unsexed Ross broiler chicks were randomly distributed into seven treatment assumed of: control group (T1), T2 and T3, supplemented with Nigella sativa powder to birds diet at the levels of 0.25 and 0.50% to diet, respectively. T4 and T5 supplemented with Artemisia herba powder to birds diet at levels of 0.25 and 0.50% to diet respectively. T6 and T7 included combination of Nigella sativa and Artemisia herba powder to birds diet at levels of 0.25: 0.25 and 0.50: 0.50% of each to diet respectively. The results were revealed a significant increase (P<0.05) in live body weight, body weight gain and feed conversion efficiency and significant decreased in feed consumption of T4 (supplemented with Artemisia herba powder at levels of 0.25) compared with other treatments. In general the study revealed that there were a significant improvement (P<0.05) in productive performance of broiler of treatments T5 (supplemented with Artemisia herba powder at levels of 0.05), T6 and T7 (included combination of powder seed Nigella Sativa and Artemisia herba powder to birds diet at levels of 0.25: 0.25 and 0.50: 0.50% of diet respectively) as compared with (T1). The results also revealed that the addition of Nigella Sativa powder to birds diet at the levels of 0.50% of diet (T3) has a significant improvement (P<0.05) in live body weight and body weight gain as compared with (T1), but no significant improvement between T1 and T2 | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Nigella sativa and Artemisia herba powder; productive performance; broiler | ||
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