Vol. 7, Issue 12 (2018)

Author(s):
Rakesh Kumar, NS Maan, Saurabh Baloda, Harish Rohila and Sajjan Sihag

Abstract:
A six weeks trial was conducted to study the effect of diets supplemented with garlic and holy basil leaf powder on economics of production of broilers. A total of 280-day-old commercial broiler chicks (Vencobb-400) were randomly allocated into seven treatments with four replicates and each replicate had ten chicks. Growth trial was conducted in complete randomized design. T₁ was served as control and fed a basal diet formulated as per ^[3] standards. T₂ and T₃ were fed with garlic powder @ 0.5, 1% feed, respectively. T₄ and T₅ were given with holy basil leaf powder @ 0.5, 1% feed, respectively. T₆ was fed with garlic powder and holy basil leaf powder @ 0.5% each. T₇ was treated with garlic powder and holy basil leaf powder @1.0% each. The results showed that The relative profit (Rs.) as compared to control (T₁) was found only in treatment T₆ (0.78), where feed supplemented with combination of 0.5% garlic and 0.5% holy basil leaf powder. Thus, the present study revealed that supplementation of garlic powder and holy basil leaf powder @ 0.5% each in the broilers diet represent the best economic option to local farmers in these research conditions.