this experiment was conducted to evaluate the ability of silybum marianum seeds (sms) on performance, carcass variables, and liver morphology of the broiler chickens contaminated with aflatoxin b1 (afb1). a total of 216 broiler chicks (ross 308) were used. birds were randomly assigned to nine treatment groups, with four replicates and six birds in each replicate. chickens were reared on litter ...

this study was designed to investigate the effects of different levels of tarragon powder on performance and carcass’ characteristics of broiler chickens. 200 one-day-old ross 308 male broiler chickens in a completely randomized design with 4 treatments and 5 replicates per treatment and 10 birds in each replicate were used. experimental diets were set on the basis of corn-soy-wheat and ross 30...

an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of germinated barley (gb) on live performance and carcass traits in broiler chickens. the experiment lasted for 5 weeks starting from 7 days of age and ending at 42 days of age. chicks (ross 308) were fed six dietary treatments including a corn–soy diet (corn diet), a barley–soy diet (barley diet), a barley diet plus enzymes...

a total of 240 ross 308 day-old male broiler chicks within a completely randomized design were used in this experiment to evaluate the effects of dietary inclusion of turmeric powder and cinnamon powder on performance and some immune responses of broiler chickens. dietary treatments were as follow: a corn-soybean meal basal diet (control); basal diet + 10 ppm avilamycin; basal diet + 2.5 g/kg t...

background & aim: medicinal plants is very potential to be used as a supplementary feed as well as feed additive in broilers.this experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of milk thistle (mt) and thyme seeds (ts) on the performance in broilers. experimental: in this study, 160 one-day-old (ross 308) male broiler chicks were divided randomly into four major groups with 4 replicate...

two hundred and forty hubbard classic broiler chicks were used in a 35 day trial at chittagong veterinary and animal science university farm, bangladesh to study the effects of supplemental choline chloride on performance parameters, carcass characteristics and their association in commercial broiler. all birds had free access to ad libitum feeding. birds were fed four types of diet i.e. diet w...

background & aim: a feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effect of periodically use of garlic on growth ‎performance, and antibody titer to newcastle and infectious bursal diseases in broiler ‎chickens. experimental: ross broiler chicks randomly allocated into the 10 dietary treatments ‎for 6 weeks. a 3 × 4 factorial experiment was used as three periods of feeding (starter, grower...

this study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary influence of aspirin on growth performance, antioxidant status and mortality in the broilers subjected to cold-induced ascites. a total six hundred 1-d old male broilers (ross, 308) were randomly allotted to four treatment groups, with five replicate pens per treatment and 30 birds each. the experimental groups were kept in a cold c...

a total of 300 one-day old male broilers (cobb 500) were randomly divided into four treatment groups. the groups comprised of 15 birds each, and were defined by diet and the birds in each group were fed 0 (control), 3, 5, or 7 kgy electron-beam irradiated diets. a total of 5 replicates were performed. the chemical composition of the diet was not affected by irradiation.irradiation doses of 5 an...

this experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of phytase superdoses alone or in combination with citric acid (ca) in canola meal-based diets severely limited in available phosphorus (pa) on growth performance, plasma phosphorus (p), and tibia ash (ta) in broilers from 22 to 42 d of age. two hundreds and eighty 21-d-old male broilers were used in 28 pens of 10 birds per each. the exper...