Vol. 7, Issue 4 (2018)

Author(s):
Gaurav Panday, PS Pramanik, AK Verma, Mukesh Kumar, Amit Tiwari, Abhishek Mishra, Awadhesh Kumar Yadav and Vijay Gautam

Abstract:
To carry out the present investigation, 200 day old straight run, commercial broiler strain “VENCOB” chicks were procured from a commercial hatchery. These 200 chicks were divided in four groups, i.e. Group 1, 2, 3, 4, each group having 50 chicks. All the chicks from each group were divided equally to form 5 replicates of 10 chicks each in a completely randomized design (CRD).Water and starter diet for the four respective treatments were offered ad libitum. The four treatment groups were supplemented with neem leaf powder @ 0g, 1g, 2g and 3g/kg of broiler ration respectively. There was significant difference in water intake of birds among the treatment groups in all the weeks on the trial. The highest water was observed in T₁ followed by T₂, T₀ and T₃ groups in the whole experiment period. Average final live weight (kg/bird) and the daily weight gain gm/day/bird) were significantly higher in T₃ followed by T₁, T₀ and T₂ groups. The lowest FCR was found in the groups of T₂ birds whereas the average daily water intake ml/bird was significantly higher in T₁ followed by T₀, T₂ and T₃.