Food and Feed Research (Jan 2016)

Influence of herbal drugs in broiler chicken nutrition on primal carcass cuts quality assessments

  • Puvača Nikola M.,
  • Kostadinović Ljiljana M.,
  • Đuragić Olivera M.,
  • Ljubojević Dragana B.,
  • Miščević Branislav M.,
  • Könyves Tibor L.,
  • Popović Sanja J.,
  • Lević Jovanka D.,
  • Nikolova Nedeljka B.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5937/FFR1601043P
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 43, no. 1
pp. 43 – 49

Abstract

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Aim of this investigation was to determine the effects of herbal drugs such as garlic, black pepper and hot red pepper in broiler chicken nutrition on carcass primal cuts quality. Total of 1200 one-day old Hubbard broilers were totally randomly distributed into eight dietary treatments with four replicates each. Chicks were fed with three dietary mixtures: starter, grower and finisher. Dietary mixtures in the experiments were as follows: T1 (Control diet), T2 (Garlic powder 0.5 g/100g), T3 (Garlic powder 1.0 g/100g), T4 (Black pepper powder 0.5 g/100g), T5 (Black pepper powder 1.0 g/100g), T6 (Hot red pepper 0.5 g/100g), T7 (Hot red pepper 1.0 g/100g ) and T8 (Mixture of spices in ratio of 1:1:1 in total amount of 0.5 g/100g). Addition of herbal drugs had significant (p0.05), while significant differences in the share of wings and beck (p<0.05) were recorded under the influence of added herbal drugs. It can be concluded that the addition of garlic, black pepper and hot red pepper in broiler chicken nutrition showed positive influence on chicken carcass quality.

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