Carcass traits of chicken broilers on sodium sulphate and fish oil supplementation in fish meal free diet

Amandeep, Bidhan, D.S., Singh, M., Komal, Yadav, D.C., Yadav, S. and Kumar, N. 2024. Carcass traits of chicken broilers on sodium sulphate and fish oil supplementation in fish meal free diet. Indian Journal of Poultry Science, 59(1): 29–33.

The present study attempts to analyze the effect of supplementation of Sodium Sulphate (SS) and Fish Oil (FO) in fish meal free ration on the carcass traits of chicken broiler. One hundred and eighty, day-old unsexed broiler chicks were distributed on the basis of completely randomized design in four groups with three replicates, each consisting of 15 broilers. The treatment groups included the T₀ (negative control), T₁ (control), T₂ (T₀ + 0.35% SS) and T₃ (T₀ + 0.35% SS + FO). Standard feeding and all other management practices were followed during the experimental period of 42 days. After completion of the experiment, three birds from each replicate were sacrificed for estimation of carcass attributes, and proximate analysis of thigh and breast meat. The carcass attributes (Dressing %, Eviscerated %, Drawn % and Inedible offals %) and proximate analysis of the breast (DM%, CP%, EE% and ASH%) and thigh (DM%, CP% and EE%) meat of T₃ group recorded significant (P<0.05) improvement as compared to T₀, T₁ and T₂ group. However, giblets percentage and thigh percentage varied non-significantly among the treatments. This experiment concludes that fish meal can be replaced by SS alone, and combination of SS with FO without any adverse impact on chicken broiler's performance.