Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
R Ajithkumar, P Shamsudeen, ST Selvan and A Sundaresan

Abstract:
A biological experiment was conducted to assess the effects of different watering systems on the carcass characteristics of commercial broiler chicken at 35^th day of age. The study was carried out with 180 sex separated and commercial broiler chicken belonging to single hatch, randomly allotted into five treatment groups and reared with bell drinker system (T₁), nipple drinker system (T₂), floating cup drinker system (T₃), basin drinker system (T₄) and linear channel drinker system (T₅). At the end of the experimental period (35^nd day of age) one male and one female from each replicate, totally six birds per treatment group were randomly slaughtered and carcass characteristics were studied. The result revealed a significantly (p<0.01) difference among treatment groups in percentage yield of eviscerated carcass, dressed carcass, giblets, liver, heart and gizzard. The result concluded that the watering systems affected the carcass characteristic in broiler chicken at 35^th day of age.