Vol. 12, Issue 2 (2023)

Author(s):
AG Nigade, SB Adangale, SB Bhalerao and AT Lokhande

Abstract:
An experiment was aimed to evaluate the effect of Aloe vera powder supplementation on the immune response of broilers. One-hundred-and-sixty-day old broiler chicks were assigned into four treatment groups with four replicates of ten birds in each treatment groups. The first treatment group T₀ kept as control fed as standard basal diet without any supplementation of Aloe vera, T₁ fed basal diet with zinc bacitracin at 20 mg/kg and 60 mg/kg salinomycin, T₂ and T₃ were provided basal diet with 1% and 1.5% Aloe vera powder respectively. Result shows that the Aloe vera in broiler feed shows significant (p<0.05) effect on broilers vaccinated with Nehwcastle disease vaccine (Lasota). Treatment T2 had significantly greater antibody titres than treatments T0, T1 and T3 (p<0.05%). Aloe vera powder is utilized in the feed of broilers, the trend suggests that varying doses of Aloe vera powder had good impacts on immunological response.