Samawal S.A. AL-Tikriti*(1) and Mustafa. N. AL-Zubaidy(1)
(1). Animal Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tikrit University. Iraq.
(*Corresponding author: Dr. Samawal Al-Tikriti. E-Mail: samawal_1976@yahoo.com).
Received: 19/10/2019 Accepted: 07/12/2019
Abstract
A total of 120 unsexed one day broiler chicks from Ross hybrid 308 were used with an average body weight of 45 grams. This study was carried out at one of the farmers’ field in Kirkuk Governorate during the studied period started from 4/4/2015 to 9/5/2015. The chicks were divided into four treatment of 30 chicks for each treatment and distributed in (3) replicates (10 birds/replicate). Nutritional treatments were as follows: (T1) was the first treatment (as control); birds were fed on a standard diet + plain water, (T2) was rhe second treatment; birds were fed on a standard diets + water added with 2.5% of the aqueous extract of orange peel, (T3) was the third treatment; where the birds were fed a standard diet + 5% water added to the orange peel extract, (T4) was the fourth treatment; birds were fed on a standard diets + 10% water added to the orange peel water extract. The results showed that there was a significant increase (p≤0.05) in the treated birds with (T2), (T3) and (T4) compared to the control treatment in cholesterol, glucose, lipoproteins, low density fats, triglycerides and uric acid concentrations. However, the values of total protein, albumin and globulin were significantly higher in favor of supplementation treatments compared to control group.
Keywords: Broilers, Orange peel, Biochemical blood.
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