Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
Pragati Sanjay Bodhare, SP Poul, RB Shitole, NB Bhargande and VM Vasave

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted in the poultry farm of Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science section, College of Agriculture, Dhule (Maharashtra). The present study entitled “effect of combination feeding of cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum) and black cumin (Nigella sativa) powder on growth performance and meat characteristics of commercial broiler chicken.” One hundred broiler chicks were weighed and randomly distributed into four treatments, with 5 replicates. The combination of cinnamon and black cumin powder was mixed with broiler’s diet. Control group (T₀) received a ration without any treatment. The birds received treatments upto 6 weeks of age at concentrations 0.30%, 0.75% and 1.0% cinnamon and black cumin powder each having treatments T₁, T₂ and T₃ respectively. The results showed that, feeding of the diets with 0.75% (T₂) cinnamon and black cumin powder was significantly increased the cumulative body weight and weekly body weight gain of broilers than control and other treatment groups. No significant difference was observed in feed intake among different treatments. Broilers fed with 0.75% group (T₂) had better Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) (1.66) than any other treatments. Based upon this study it can be said that, combination of cinnamon and black cumin powder can be used as a natural feed additive at a rate of 0.75% for better growth performance and FCR of broilers.