THE IMPACT OF SUBSTITUTE DIFFERENT RATIOS OF WATER FERN FROM SOYBEAN MEAL SOME OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL TRAITS IN THE DIETS OF BROILER CHICKENS AT THE AGE OF 21 DAYS

Y. S.  Najim; Th. T.  Mohammed; F. M.  Hussain

doi:10.59807/jlsar.v3i2.46

Authors

Y. S. Najim Ministry of Agriculture, Office of Agricultural Researches, Iraq
Th. T. Mohammed Department of Animal Production, College of Agriculture, University of Anbar, Anbar, Iraq.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6109-9994
F. M. Hussain Ministry of Agriculture, Office of Agricultural Researches, Iraq.

https://doi.org/10.59807/jlsar.v3i2.46

Keywords:

Water Fern Azolla, Broilers, Economic Feasibility, Physiological Performance

Abstract

This study was conducted on a poultry farm of the Department of Animal Production / College of Agriculture/University of Anbar. The experiment to see the effect of the use of Azolla filiculoides Lam in the diets of broiler chickens at the age of 21-42 days, using 300 Ross 308 broilers fed on added diets, Azolla Filiculoides Lam used at levels 5, 10, 20 and 30% for T2, T3, T4 and T5, respectively, and were compared with the control treatment T1 which is free of Azolla Filiculoides Lam. There were significant decrease (P≤0.05) in the economic viability characteristics (the cost of starter feed, the final one, the cost of the kilogram of the produced meat and the percentage of cost decrease per 100 kg feed) for all Azolla treatments compared to the control treatment. T5 (%30 Azolla replacement) was the most significantly decreased treatment in the percentage of feed cost compared to the control treatment and other experiment treatments. There were no significant differences between the control treatment and the experiment treatments in all the biochemical parameters of blood plasma, which included the concentration of uric acid, creatine, triglycerides and low-density lipoproteins (VLDL).

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

B. Gangadhar et al., “Effect of azolla-incorporated diets on the growth and survival of Labeo fimbriatus during fry-to-fingerling rearing,” Cogent Food Agric, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, doi: 10.1080/23311932.2015.1055539.

Aswir and H. Misbah, “Efektivitas Pengolahan Air Limbah Bioetanol Berbasis Bioremediasi Menggunakan Azolla microphylla dan Pseudomonas aeruginosa,” Photosynthetica, vol. 2, no. 1, 2018.

D. R. Paudel, P. Dhakal, K. P. Timsina, and A. Dahal, “Azolla as an Economic Substitute to Soybean Based Feed for Poultry,” Int J Appl Sci Biotechnol, vol. 3, no. 4, 2015, doi: 10.3126/ijasbt.v3i4.13636.

A. A. Ghazalah, M. A. F. El-Manylawi, H. F. A. Motawe, M. S. Khattab, and Y. I. Youssef, “Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility, Biochemical Properties, Hematological Traits, and Intestinal Histopathology of Broiler Chicks Fed Mannan Oligosaccharides,” World’s Veterinary Journal, vol. 11, no. 4, 2021, doi: 10.54203/scil.2021.wvj79.

W. Richmond, “Preparation and properties of a cholesterol oxidase from Nocardia sp. and its application to the enzymatic assay of total cholesterol in serum,” Clin Chem, vol. 19, no. 12, 1973, doi: 10.1093/clinchem/19.12.1350.

E. Evans, “Practical clinical chemistry: core concepts,” Annals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine, vol. 53, no. 6, 2016, doi: 10.1177/0004563216654349.

A. H. Brush, D. S. Farner, and J. R. King, “Avian Biology. Volume III,” Bird-Banding, vol. 45, no. 3, 1974, doi: 10.2307/4512055.

G. A. Marcoulides and L. D. Massrcoulides, “SAS (Statistical Analysis System),” in Encyclopedia of Information Systems, 2003. doi: 10.1016/b0-12-227240-4/00153-2.

D. B. Duncan, “Multiple Range and Multiple F Tests,” Biometrics, vol. 11, no. 1, 1955, doi: 10.2307/3001478.

H. Naghshi, S. Khojasteh, and M. Jafari, “Investigation the Effect of Different Levels of Azolla (Azolla pinnata) on Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Cobb Broiler Chicks,” International Journal of Farming and Allied Sciences, vol. 3, no. 1, 2014.