Effect of basil seed powder, vitamin C and the mixing between them on the productive traits of heat-stressed broiler chickens

Abstract

This study was conducted in the poultry field belonging to the Department of Animal Production / College of Agriculture / University of Kufa for the period from August 30, 2020 to October 4, 2020, for a period of 5 weeks. To know the effect of adding and mixing basil seed powder and vitamin C on the productive performance of heat-stressed broiler chickens. In the experiment, 300 unsexed broiler chicks were used, Ross 308 hybrid of one-day age, the chicks were randomly divided into 5 treatments (60 chicks / treatment) with 3 replicates per treatments. As each refined included 20 chicks with an average starter weight of 45 g and the treatments were as follows: T1 control treatment (without adding basil seed powder and vitamin C), T2 adding 4 g / kg of basil seed powder, T3 adding 6 g / kg of basil seed powder, T4 add 300 mg / kg of feed vitamin C, T5 adding 5 g / kg of feed basil seed powder + 150 mg / kg feed vitamin C.The results of the experiment showed that treatment T3 excelled on control and treatment T4 in the average live body weight at the fourth and fifth weeks of average of birds, and treatment T3 excelled on control and T4 in total weight gain and food conversion ratio. The two treatments T2 and T3 achieved a significant effect on the total feed consumption average compared to the control treatment. We conclude from this experiment the ability of basil seed powder to increase the productive performance of heat-stressed broiler chickens.