Beta
79495

EFFECT OF ADDING MARJORAM POWDER TO BROILER CHICKS DIET ON PERFORMANCE, BLOOD AND ANTIOXIDANT ENZYME ACTIVITY.

Article

Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

Subjects

-

Tags

Feeds and feeding for poultry.

Abstract

  Aggregate of 180 Cobb broiler chicks were randomly assigned to 5 dietary groups, each group contain three replicates (12 chicks each) the experiment lasted 38 days. The first group fed on basal control diet without any additives, while, the rest fed on basal control diet supplemented with 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5% marjoram powder (MP) respectively. The obtained results showed that dietary MP improved performance parameters of broilers especially with 1.5% MP, whereas causing significant increase in live body weight at 21 and 38 days of age, body weight gain, improving feed intake and feed conversion ratio at all periods than the control group and other treatments. Red and white blood cells, hemoglobin, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, total protein and albumen were influenced by MP levels, but platelets, globulin and albumen to globulin ratio were not affected by treatments. Marjoram powder supplementation decreased serum cholesterol level, triglyceride and low density lipoproteins, but increasing high density lipoproteins and glutathione peroxidase activity compared to the control group. Overall, these data indicate that, supplementing MP into the broiler diets improved productive performance, physiological parameters, antioxidant enzyme activity (glutathione peroxidase) and lipid profiles especially with 1.5% MP.

DOI

10.21608/ejnf.2019.79495

Keywords

broilers nutrition, marjoram or oregano, performance, physiological parameters, plasma constituents, antioxidant enzyme activity

Authors

First Name

A.

Last Name

Abdel-Wahab

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Poultry Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, 63514 Fayoum, Egypt

Email

aaa16@fayoum.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

22

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

11851

Issue Date

2019-12-01

Receive Date

2019-11-05

Publish Date

2019-12-29

Page Start

611

Page End

625

Print ISSN

1110-6360

Link

https://ejnf.journals.ekb.eg/article_79495.html

Detail API

https://ejnf.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=79495

Order

15

Type

Original Article

Type Code

1,061

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Nutrition and Feeds

Publication Link

https://ejnf.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

EFFECT OF ADDING MARJORAM POWDER TO BROILER CHICKS DIET ON PERFORMANCE, BLOOD AND ANTIOXIDANT ENZYME ACTIVITY.

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023