Effect of Feeding Garlic on the Performance and Immunity of Broilers

Fadlalla, I.M.T.; Mohammed, Benabid; Bakhiet, Amel O.

doi:10.3923/ajpsaj.2010.182.189

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“…The higher body weight gains might be due to growth promoting and antimicrobial property of garlic and neem leaves that helped to reduce the microbial load of birds and improved feed efficiency [12,19]. Similar findings with respect to increased FCR were reported by earlier researchers [9,10,12,18,20,21]. In contrary to findings of this study, some authors observed that the supplementation of garlic and neem leaves had no significant (p>0.05) effect FCR [14,16,[22][23][24][25][26].…”

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Effect of garlic and neem leaf powder supplementation on growth performance and carcass traits in broilers

Kharde¹,

Soujanya²

2014

Vet World

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. How to cite this article: Kharde KR, Soujanya S (2014) Effect of garlic and neem leaf powder supplementation on growth performance and carcass traits in broilers, Veterinary World 7(10): 799-802. AbstractAim: Present experiment was designed to study the effect of supplementation of garlic and neem leaf powder (NLP) on growth performance and carcass yields in broilers. Materials and Methods:A total of 210-day-old commercial male broiler chicks (Ven Cobb) were procured and randomly distributed in to seven treatments, each treatment had six replicates with five chicks per each replicate. Growth trial was conducted in a randomized block design comprising seven dietary treatments. T1 was served as control. T2 and T3 were fed with garlic powder (GP) 0.5, 1 g/kg feed respectively. T4 and T5 were given with NLP 1, 2 g/kg feed respectively. T6 was fed with 0.5 g/kg GP and 1.0 g/kg NLP. T7 was treated with 1.0 g/kg GP and 2.0 g/kg NLP. The body weight, feed consumption of individual bird was recorded at weekly interval and the body weight gain, feed conversion ratio (FCR) were calculated. At the end of 42 day, six birds from each dietary group were sacrificed to estimate the dressing yield and relative weights of giblet (liver, heart and gizzard).Results: Supplementation of garlic and NLP alone and their combination significantly (p<0.05) improved the body weight gain and FCR whereas no significant (p>0.05) influence was observed in carcass parameters like dressing yield and giblet yield (heart, gizzard and liver) in all treatment groups.Conclusions: Supplementation of GP alone showed poor performance, but when it was supplemented in combination with NLP there was improvement in performance parameters. These results indicated that the combination of GP and NLP can be used as alternates to coccidiostats for improving the performance. Such meat can be used as a designer meat as fetch higher price if marketed as branded item.

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Effect of garlic and neem leaf powder supplementation on growth performance and carcass traits in broilers

Kharde¹,

Soujanya²

2014

Vet World

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“…Differences in FI between treatments derived from that herb had the ability to change feed intake and could be successfully used as growth promoters (Hertrampf, 2001 andBolukbasi et al, 2006).Results reported herein are in agreement with those obtained by Demir et al (2008), Onibi et al (2009), Fadlalla et al (2010, Ao et al (2011), Toghyani et al (2011, Elagib et al (2013), Saeid et al (2013)and Kirkpinar et al (2014), who noticed that there were no significant differences between treatments (0.5% garlic powder or 0.5% black seed and their mixture) in feed intake and the control treatment.…”

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“…The same trend was more obvious at (0-5) weeks. The same trend was observed by Fadlalla et al (2010), Najafi and Torki (2010), Raeesi et al (2010), Elagib et al (2013), and Tabari et al (2013) who found better FCR with garlic or thyme supplementation to broiler diets.…”

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Beneficial Effects of Garlic and Thyme Powder on Performance and Carcass Characterestics of Broiler Chicks

Abou-Elnaga

Zanaty

Abou-Ashour

et al. 2016

Egyptian Journal of Nutrition and Feeds

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n experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of some herbal plant's powder; garlic (Allium sativum), thyme (Thyme vulgaris) and their mixture in broiler diets on growth performance, carcass traits, some blood components and economical efficiency. A total of 210 unsexed Arbor-Acers 1 day old broiler chicks were randomly distributed into 7 comparable groups, 30 chicks each. Each group was fed one of seven diets during the experimental period (from 1 to 35 days of age). Diet 1, control (with no garlic or thyme powder supplementation) while diets from 2 -7 contained garlic or thyme as follows: diet 2: control diet + 1% garlic; diet 3: control diet + 2 % garlic; diet 4: control diet + 0.2 % thyme; diet 5: control diet + 0.4 % thyme; diet 6 : control diet + 1 % garlic + 0.2 % thyme; diet 7: control diet + 2 % garlic + 0.4 % thyme. Results revealed that increasing dietary garlic or thyme significantly (P ≤ 0.05) improved body weight (BW), body weight gain (BWG), performance index (PI) and feed conversion (feed/ gain). While, feed intake was significantly (p ≤ 0.05) decreased with increasing dietary garlic or thyme. Also, water consumption and some blood serum components were significantly affected by the addition of garlic or thyme. Dressing percentage was not affected, while, lymphoid organs weight were significantly increased with increasing dietary garlic or thyme. Findings of this study indicate that broilers consuming control diet can achieve maximum performance and economic efficiency when supplemented with 0.4% thyme (group 5) without any side effects.

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“…Feed additives have been widely used to increase the performance of animals and are now used in poultry feeding practices extensively (Collington et al, 1990;Khan et al, 2007) not only to stimulate the growth and feed efficiency but to improve the health and performance of birds (Scott et al, 1982;Fadlalla et al, 2010;Abouelfetouh and Moussa, 2012;Gopi et al, 2014). The last years of research have focused on finding some additives to ensure proper growth and development, while protecting the body against diseases which may harm the health and welfare.…”

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Influences of Dietary Supplementation of Antimicrobial Cold Pressed Oils Mixture on Growth Performance and Intestinal Microflora of Growing Japanese Quails

El‐Hack¹,

Mahgoub²,

Alagawany³

et al. 2015

International J. of Pharmacology

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Effect of Feeding Garlic on the Performance and Immunity of Broilers

Cited by 51 publications

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Effect of garlic and neem leaf powder supplementation on growth performance and carcass traits in broilers

Effect of garlic and neem leaf powder supplementation on growth performance and carcass traits in broilers

Beneficial Effects of Garlic and Thyme Powder on Performance and Carcass Characterestics of Broiler Chicks

Influences of Dietary Supplementation of Antimicrobial Cold Pressed Oils Mixture on Growth Performance and Intestinal Microflora of Growing Japanese Quails

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