Effect of dietary herb supplementations of crushed seed of Celery Apium graveolens  and Ginger Zingiber officinale on blood traits of broiler breeder hens

H. Jajo, Shlimoon

	Effect of dietary herb supplementations of crushed seed of Celery Apium graveolens and Ginger Zingiber officinale on blood traits of broiler breeder hens
Journal of Tikrit University For Agriculture Sciences
Article 1, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-169
Author
Shlimoon H. Jajo
Abstract
This study was carried out at the Poultry Station of State Board of Agriculture Research. Ministry of Agriculture during the period 5-11-2010 to 9-5-2011 , Elucidate the effect of dietary herb supplementations of crushed seeds of celery and/or ginger on some productive performances and blood parameters of broiler breeder hens , during the period ( 25-50 weeks of age). A total number of 432 hen and 36 male from Arbor-Acres and ROSS-308 strains at 27 weeks of age were randomly divided into 9 groups , control diet T1 (ME=2870 Kcal/Kg and CP=16.1 g/Kg) without addition T2 and T3 Groups were treated by the addition of 2.5 and 5.0 Kg/Ton crushed seed of celery , T4 and T5 included 2.5 and 5.0 Kg/Ton crushed ginger respectively and treatments T6 , T7 , T8 and T9 included combination of crushed seed of celery and ginger at levels of 2.5:2.5 , 2.5:5.0 , 5.0 : 2.5 and 5.0:5.0 respectively .The addition of crushed seed of celery and /or ginger to broiler breeder hens caused an improvement in the blood parameters that give an expression of decreasing Heterophils: Lymphocytes ratio , glucose , cholesterol , triglyceride AST and ALT serum levels , also significant decrease in MDH and significant increase in GSH level as well as decrease in Low density lipoprotein (LHL) , but with increase in high density lipoprotein (HDL) blood serum protein , globulin concentration.
Keywords
Herb supplements; Broiler Breeders; hens; Zingiber

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