Volume 10, Issue 22, July - December 2024

Impact of Cordyline fruiticosa leaf meal supplemented diet on growth performance, egg production, egg quality and some heamatological indices of laying hen

Alagbe Olujimi John

Department of Animal Nutrition and Biochemistry, Sumitra Research Institute, Gujarat, India

ABSTRACT

A total 500 – 35 weeks Lohmann brown hens randomly distributed into five treatments with five replicates (20 hens per replicate). Hens in treatment 1 (control group) was fed basal diet only and the other experimental groups were fed the same diet with the addition of Cordyline fruiticosa meal at 10 grams, 20 grams, 30 grams and 40 grams respectively in treatment 2, 3, 4 and 5. Hens fed Cordyline fruiticosa meal had higher body weight compared to the control in this order treatment 5 (T5) (1270.0 grams), 4 (1263.0 grams), 3 (1233.6 grams), 2 (1230.0 grams) and 1 (983.1 grams) (P<0.05) respectively. Average daily feed intake, feed conversion and mortality rate were influenced by the treatment (P<0.05). Hen day egg production and hen house egg production were higher in T5 (72.98%, 65.90%), T4 (72.72%, 69.85%), T3 (72.88%, 69.83%), intermediate in T2 (60.09%, 51.00%) and lower in T1 (51.19%, 41.85%). Egg shell strength, egg shell thickness, egg weight, albumen weight, yolk weight, yolk index and haugh unit were significantly (P<0.05) different among the treatment. Pack cell volume, haemoglobin, red blood cell, white blood cell, heterophil and lymphocyte count were influenced by the treatment. However, values fall within the established range for healthy laying hen. It was concluded that Cordyline fruiticosa meal can be fed to laying hens up to 40 grams’/kg diet without having any negative effect on the performance and health status.

Keywords: Antibiotics, Cordyline fruiticosa meal, laying hens, phytochemicals, food safety.

Discovery Agriculture, 2024, 10, e17da1583

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v10i22.e17da1583

Published: 03 July 2024