Effect of dietary supplementation of organic acids and clove essential oil on broiler performance

Gole, M.A., Manwar, S.J., Kuralkar, S.V., Waghmare, S.P. and Hajare, S.W. 2020. Effect of dietary supplementation of organic acids and clove essential oil on broiler performance. Indian Journal of Poultry Science, 55(1): 23–30.

The present study was planned to evaluate the effect of dietary supplementation of clove essential oil and organic acids alone or in combinations on performance of broiler chickens. A total of 420 Vencobb-400 day old chicks were randomly distributed into 8 treatments having 3 replicates of 20 chicks each. The control group (A) received basal diet and the dietary different treatment B received basal diet supplemented with clove essential oil at the rate of 200 mg/kg, whereas, groups C, D and E received basal diet supplemented with sorbic acid, fumaric acid and propionic acid at a dose of 1%, respectively and groups F, G and H received basal diet with combination of clove essential oil (200 mg/kg) along with sorbic acid, fumaric acid and propionic acid at a dose of 1 %, respectively. The supplementation was carried out for a period of 6 weeks. Results showed that fumaric acid and clove essential oil supplementation both singly or in combination improved the body weight, body weight gain and better feed conversion ratio of broilers without affecting the liveability. It could be concluded that, the supplementation of combination of clove essential oil with fumaric acid resulted in better performance in terms of growth in broiler chickens.