Ahmad Sardini*(1)and Adel Jammoul (1)
(1). Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria.
(*Corresponding author: Ahmad Sardini. E-Mail: rafeaahmad40@gmail.com).
Received: 21/06/2022 Accepted: 30/10/2022
Abstract:
The present work aims to study the effect of adding (fenugreek seeds) to poultry diets on some production indicators of broiler. The research was carried out in a private poultry house in Homs during the period between October 17 to December 1, from 2021 AD. In the experiment 90 broilers from Hybrid Ross were used, randomly distributed, at the age of one day, within three different treatments, with 30 chicks per treatment, one treatment divided into three replicates. The difference between treatments was the level of addition of fenugreek seeds, treatment T1 control treatment had eaten the basal feed without addition of fenugreek seeds, while treatment T2 representing the treatment which eating the basal feed plus 1% of fenugreek seeds to feed along the period of experiment and treatment T3 representing the treatment which eating the basal feed plus 2% of fenugreek seeds. The results showed significant increase (P<0.05) between the experiment treatments where T2 outperformed the rest of the other studied transactions, so that was the average live weight (2409) g, the average weight gain (2368) g, the average feed consumption (5008) g and the feed conversion factor (2.11). In addition to the lower mortality rate in treatment T2 compared to treatment T3 and treatment of the control.
Key words: feed mixtures, productivity indicators, fenugreek seeds, broilers.
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