1Assistant Professor, Animal Nutrition, College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
2Profeesor and Head Department of Animal Nutrition, College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
3Professor, Department of Animal Nutrition, College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
4Assistant Professor, Livestock Production and Management, College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
5Teaching Associate, LFRMTC, RAJUVAS, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
Department of Animal Nutrition, CVAS, RAJUVAS, Bikaner-334 001Rajasthan, India
*Corresponding author- Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Nutrition, College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Bikaner
**Corresponding author Email: ddineshvet@gmail.com; Mob. 8003300472
Online Published on 31 December, 2021.
A 42 day feeding trial was carried out to investigate the effect of supplementation of Tinospora cordifolia (at graded levels) or ascorbic acid alone and in combinations on Leucogram and H/L ratio using 360 one-day-old broiler chicks in an experiment based 5x2 factorial design and divided into ten (10) dietary treatments groups (T1-T10) in triplicate of twelve chicks per replicate. The average temperature (31oC) during the research trial was higher than the recommended normothermia zone i.e. 18–24°C established for poultry birds, which indicated that poultry birds were in chronic heat stress. Improvement in leucogram and H/L ratio of broilers was observed in the present trial due to supplementation of ascorbic acid or Tinospora cordifolia (geloi) alone and in combinations. Supplementation of ascorbic acid or Tinospora cordifolia (geloi) may render positive immune response of immune organs in broilers during chronic heat stress.
Ascorbic acid, DLC, H/L ratio, Tinospora cordifolia, TLC
