Effect of Dietary Supplementation of Plant Seeds as Fatty Acids Source on Nutrients Digestibility, Performance, Carcass and Cutting Percentage and Physical Properties Evaluation of Meat of Broiler

Abstract

This feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effects of three kinds of plant seeds as fatty acids source on in vitro nutrient digestibility, growth performance, and physical evaluation of meat of broiler. Two hundred broiler chicks were assigned to 4 dietary treatments for 5 weeks. The birds were randomly allocated into five treatments with four replicates, and each replicate containing 10 broilers. The treatments contained 1% palm oil in diet, 1% pumpkin seeds in diet, 1% candlenut in diet, 1% nutmeg in diet, and 1% mix pumpkin seed, candlenut and nutmeg in diet. The based diet consisted of commercial diet 80%, yellow corn 11%, rice bran 8%. The variables were nutrients digestibility, growth performance, carcass characteristics, giblet, and physical properties of meat. Data were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance. The treatment means were compared using Duncan's multiple range test. The results showed that birds fed these plant seeds in diet had similar feed intake, BWG, FCR, SGR, GE, abdominal fat percentage, carcass characteristics though that of control, however had significantly different on heart, spleen, and bilein giblet, WHC and cooking loss of meat. It can be concluded that these plants seeds can be used to broiler diet for improving the performance.