Effect of supplementation of shatavari root and amla fruit powder on performance of broilers

The present investigation was carried out to assess the effect of feeding Shatavari Root Powder (SRP) and Amla Fruit Powder (AM) on broiler performance. Two hundred and fifty day old straight run commercial broilers chicks were randomly distributed into five treatment groups with four replicates and 12–13 chicks in each replicate. The dietary treatments consisted of control without SRP or AM (T₁), 0.50% SRP (T₂), 1.00% SRP (T₃), 0.50% AM (T₄) and 1.00% AM (T₅).Atsix weeks of age, the average weekly gain was 467.53^{, 528.79, 513.88, 466.3and502.15g in T₁ to T₅ treatment groups, respectively. The cumulative feed consumption at sixth week of age was 3965.30, 3877.91, 3794.77, 3891.22 and 3832.35g, respectively, in T₁-T₅ treatments groups. The cumulative feed conversion efficiency of various groups T₁ to T₅was 1.85, 1.75, 1.70, 1.76 and 1.71, respectively. The average dressing percentage among the different treatment groups varied from68.48 to 65.61percent. Numerically higher dressing percentage was recorded in treatment T₃ (68.48). The addition of shatavari root powder and Amlafruit powder at 1% level found to reduce the feed cost in broilers. The results of the present study showed that the use of shatavari root powder and amla fruit powder were found to be beneficial. The overall performance and economical benefits were better at 1.00% level of inclusion of these herbs compared to 0.50% level.}