EFFECTS OF CONCENTRATE PROTEIN AND MULTIVITAMIN ON GROWTH AND HEMATOBIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS IN BROILER

Abstract

The experiment was conducted on “Cobb 500” broiler chicks to investigate the effects of concentrate protein and multivitamin supplementation on body weight, hematological (TEC, Hb, PCV and ESR) and biochemical (AST and ALT) parameters. A total of 20, day old broiler chicks were allowed to take rest for 14 days for the adaptation and supplied with normal diet and water. After day 14 they were randomly divided into four equal groups (N=5) and marked them as group T0, T1, T2 and T3. Group T0 was kept as control and fed with only normal diet for 21 days but the group T1, T2 and T3 were treated with supplementation of protein (Jasoprot®, protein concentrate 60%), supplementation of 0.5 gm vitamin/liter (Rena WS) drinking water & supplementation of protein and 0.5 gm multivitamin with normal diet for 21 days respectively. Body weight as gm of broiler chicks was measured on the day 15 of age (1 day of experiment) and sequentially at 7 days interval up to the end of the experiment up to day 36 of age (21 st day of experiment). For the hematobiochemical examinations, blood samples were collected from the randomly selected 5 (i.e. n = 5) birds from each and every group at the end of experiment on day 36 of age (21 st

day of experiment). On day 36 of age (21 st day of experiment) the body weight in control group T0 was 1949.00±33.62 gm and in the treated groups were 2042.60±7.99 gm, 2115.00±7.91 gm and 2240.00±7.90 gm respectively. It was observed that body weight were increased significantly (p<0.01) in the treatment groups (T1, T2 and T3) as compared to control group T0. TEC and Hb content also increased significantly (p<0.01) in all the treatment groups as compared to control group. But the ESR, AST st and ALT values were decreased significantly (p<0.01) in the treatment groups. Therefore, it may be concluded that combined supplementation of protein and multivitamin had better performance in terms of body weight gain and hematobiochemical parameters without any detrimental effects in broilers.