Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
Bamudi Sai Sandeep, Niranjan Panda, Kamdev Sethy and Sudhanya Nath

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted to explore the effect of dietary supplementation of amla powder on growth performance in Black Rock broiler chicken in comparative parallel study with equivalent synthetic vitamin C. In total one hundred forty (n=140) day old Black Rock chicks were randomly distributed into 7 dietary treatments with two replicates having 10 birds in each replicate. The dietary treatments were: T₁ (Control group): Basal diet; T₂: Basal diet + 0.5% amla powder; T₃: Basal diet + 1% amla powder; T₄: Basal diet + 2% amla powder; T₅: Basal diet+ Equivalent synthetic vitamin C as present in 0.5% amla powder; T₆: Basal diet + Equivalent synthetic vitamin C as present in 1% amla powder; T₇: Basal diet + Equivalent synthetic vitamin C as present in 2% amla powder. The experiment was scheduled for 7 weeks in two phases with starter (1^st - 3^rd week) and finisher ration (4^th-7^th week) during mid-January to March having average temperature-humidity index (THI) value of 76.64. Results revealed that there was no significant difference in body weight and feed intake but significantly better FCR was noticed in T₁, T₂ and T₃ groups than control group. From the above experimental study, the following conclusion could be stated that supplementation of 1% amla powder to basal diet improved FCR. Synthetic vitamin C needs double the dose of natural form of vitamin C to exert same effect on FCR.