Vol. 11, Special Issue 4 (2022)

Author(s):
SB Adangale, Akash Nigade, PD Mali and PD Chendage

Abstract:
An experiment was aimed to evaluate the effect of supplementation of Aloe vera powder as alternative to antibiotic on Growth performance and serum lipid profile in broiler. One-hundred-and-sixty-day old broiler chicks were assigned into four treatment groups with four replicates of ten birds in each treatment groups. The first treatment group T₀ kept as control fed as standard basal diet without any supplementation of Aloe vera, T₁ fed basal diet with zinc bacitracin at 20mg/kg and 60mg/kg salinomycin, T₂ and T₃ were provided basal diet with 1% and 1.5% Aloe vera powder respectively. Result depicted that significantly (p>0.05) higher body weight was recorded in treatment T₂ (1% Aloe vera powder) group. Non-significant effect was observed in feed intake in all treatment group. Better feed conversion ratio observed in T₂ treatment groups. There was decreased level of total cholesterol, ALT, ALP and AST whereas glucose content was increased as compared to control.