Effect of different litters supplemented with chemicals agents on broiler rectum

Abstract

The objective of the study was to ascertain the effects of the litter type and its chemical supplementation on rectum characteristics in broilers. Experiment was conducted based on a 3×3 factorial arrangement with 3 litter treatments (sand, wood shaving, and paper) and 3 chemical reagent treatments (no reagent, lime, and bentonite). From obtained results, it is showed that litter type had not significant effect on rectum weight, relative weight of rectum, rectum length, rectum width, and rectum diameter (P>0.05), although sand litter had the highest rectum weight, relative weight of rectum, and rectum width numerically. Chemical regent type also had not significant on rectum weight, relative weight of rectum, rectum length, rectum width, and rectum diameter (P>0.05), however no reagent resulted to the highest rectum weight, relative weight of rectum, rectum length, and rectum diameter numerically. Meanwhile statistical differences between nine studied treatments for weight of rectum were significant (P≤0.05) and the highest level of rectum weight belonged to treatment 1 (sand as litter and no reagent), and treatment 3 (sand as litter and lime as reagent) remained at lower level than other treatments.