Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
Revati B Shitole, SP Poul, TR Bhosale, MR More and PS Bodhare

Abstract:
In the poultry farm of the Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science section of the College of Agriculture, Dhule (Maharashtra), the current study, titled "Effect of feeding Powdered Coriander Seeds (Coriandrum sativum) (PCS) on growth performance and meat characteristics of broiler chicken," was carried out from June to August 2023. For forty-five days, 120 broiler chicks were raised in a deep litter system. With four treatment blocks and five replications, thirty chicks per group were randomly assigned to one of four groups. While PCS was added to the experimental meals at doses of 0.5%, 1.0%, and 1.5% for treatments T₁, T₂, and T₃, respectively, the control group (T₀) received any dietary treatment. The outcomes demonstrated that there was a statistically non-significant variation in the proximate composition of thigh meat between the various treatments and the carcass features. Data showed that there were statistically non-significant (p>0.05) differences between the treatments in terms of dressing percentage, percentage of cut-up sections such as breast, giblet, drumstick and thigh, as well as proportion of edible and non-edible components. At 45 days of age, the proximate composition of breast meat revealed non-significant (p>0.05) differences between the treatments for moisture, dry matter, ash, crude protein, crude fat and nitrogen-free extract.