Year: 2023 | Month: June | Volume 13 | Issue 3
Effect of Sodium Butyrate Supplementation on Carcass Traits and Visceral Organ Weights in Commercial Broiler
Manoj Kumar
K.*
H.C. Indresh
Karthik
M.B.
Sunil
N.K.
DOI:10.30954/2277-940X.03.2023.14
Abstract:
A total of 200, day old broiler chicks were divided into 4 treatments consisting of 5 replicates in each group and ten chicks in each
replicate. Basal diet (T1) prepared following BIS (2007) standards and the experimental diets were prepared by incorporating
antibiotic 0.02 % of BMD (T2), 0.1% sodium butyrate in pre-starter, 0.05 % in starter and 0.025% in finisher (T3) and 0.02 % of
antibiotic BMD and 0.1% sodium butyrate in pre-starter, 0.05% in starter and 0.025 % in finisher (T4). The results revealed that
sodium butyrate and combination of sodium butyrate along with antibiotic BMD resulted in significant improvement (P ≤ 0.05)
in carcass characteristics like dressing percentage, breast yield, thigh yield, drumstick yield, abdominal fat percentage, relative
weight of liver and gizzard in sodium butyrate supplemented groups when compared and non-significant difference (P > 0.05)
in relative weight of heart and proventriculus was observed.
Highlights
- Studied the sodium butyrate supplementation effect on the growth of broiler chickens.
- Sodium butyrate showed significant effect on the overall growth of the chickens.
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