THE EFFECT A LEVELS OF CINNAMON (CINNAMOMUM BURMANII) LEAVES EXTRACT IN THE DIET ON INTERNAL ORGANS WEIGHT AND ABDOMINAL FAT OF BROILERS

Abstract

This research aims to determine the effect of level of Cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanii) leaves extract on the diet to internal organs broilers. The study used an experimental method with a completely randomized design (CRD) with six treatments and four repetitions. The experimental animals were distributed into six treatments groups as follows: P0 (diet without cinnamon leaves extract), P1 (diet + 0.01% zinc bacitracin antibiotic), P2 (diet + 0.25% cinnamon leaves extract), P3 (diet + 0.5% cinnamon leaves extract), P4 (diet + 0.75% cinnamon leaves extract) and P5 (diet + 1% cinnamon leaves extract). The observed parameters were heart weight, liver weight, gizzard weight, spleen weight and abdominal fat weight of broiler’s chickens. The data were analyzed by variance analysis. The results of this research showed that the treatment did not have a significant effect (P > 0.05) to the heart weight, liver weight, gizzard weight, spleen weight and abdominal fat weight of broilers. It can be concluded that the addition of cinnamon leaf extract in feed up to a level of 1% is safe because it does not affect the performance of internal organs and can gradually reduce the weight of abdominal fat in the body of broilers.

Keywords

• cinnamon
• leave extract
• internal organs
• broilers