The Effects of Dill Powder in Diet on Some Blood Metabolites, Carcass Characteristics and Broiler Performance

摘要

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of Dill powder in diet on blood parameters,performance and carcass characterization in broiler chicken. 600 one-day old chicks were experimented in acompletely randomized design with 10 treatments (from treatment 1 (T1) till treatment 10 (T10) and 3 replicates.T1 as negative control without the additive supplementation,T2 till T10 with different concentrations of Dillpowder (DP) in diet. T6 had significantly higher feed intake than other treatments (p<0.05) in finisher and allover the period. Also the treatments had no significant effects on feed conversion ratio. The percent of thighweight was significantly higher in T2, T3 and T5 than control group (p<0.05). Also T2 had lower weight ofbreast than control group (p<0.05). The use of the highest level of Dill powder in diet (T10) significantly hadlower percent of inner fat (p<0.05) than control group. Dill powder had no significant effect on glucose,triglyceride and high density lipoprotein (HDL) level in 21 day of age. T2 and T3 had significant lower level ofcholesterol than T4 in 21 day of age (p<0.05). The experimental treatments had no significant effect ontriglyceride and cholesterol in 42 day of age, while HDL level in T2 was higher than control and glucose levelin T2 and T3 were higher than T9 (p<0.05). This experiment shows that the use of Dill powder could increasethe feed intake and HDL and decrease the percent of inner fat in broiler chickens.