EFFECT OF DIETARY REPLACEMENT OF ANTIBIOTIC GROWTH PROMOTER WITH HERBAL GROWTH PROMOTER ON PERFORMACE OF BROILER POULTRY BIRDS
2013
The herbal supplement containing combination of natural growth promoting agents was examined for its effect on growth, intestinal morphology and carcass traits. One hundred and twenty day old broiler chicks of nearly similar body weight were equally divided into four groups of thirty birds with three replicates in each group. Group‐I was positive control fed with the basal diet without any natural or synthetic source of antibiotics. Group‐ II was test group fed with the basal diet supplemented with bacteriostatic herbal growth promoter with essential oils (AV/AGP/10) @ 250g/ton of feed (supplied by M/S Ayurvet Ltd., Baddi, India). Group‐III was test group fed with the basal diet supplemented with test feed AV/AGP/10 @ 500g/ton of feed. Group‐IV was fed with basal diet supplemented with Bacitracin Methylene Dicyticylate @ 100g/ton of feed. The experiment was conducted in mid summer season with average environmental temperature ranging between 42‐45 0
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