The effects of prosopis farcta as medicinal plant on growth performance, carcass characteristics and blood metabolites in broiler chickens

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This study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary supplementation with medicinal plant of Prosopis farcta on growth performance, carcass traits and serum biochemistry in broiler chickens. A total number of 288 day old broilers (Ross 308, mixed male and female) were randomly allocated to three treatments with four replicates and 24 birds in each replicate in a completely randomized design. The period of study was 49 day. The dietary treatments were consisted of the basal diet as control group, and two groups with whole plant powder of Prosopis farcta supplemented at 1 and 2 percent in diet. The results of this experiment indicated that, average daily gain and feed conversion ratio were significantly different between treatments (P<0.01) and the highest feed conversion ratio was related to treatment contained 2 percent Prosopis farcat powder (P<0.01). Treatments had no effect on feed intake. There were significant effect of Prosopis farcta on mortality (P<0.05). Treatments of 1 and 2 percent prosopis farcta were reduced total cholesterol and cholesterol-LDL. The results of this experiment showed that use of 1 percent of whole medicinal plant Prosopis farcta in broiler chickens diet not only has no effect on performance but also could be reduced cholesterol, cholesterol-LDL and mortality.

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