Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Manoj Kumar K, HC Indresh, Jayanaik, MB Karthik and Umesh BU

Abstract:
A total of 200, day old broiler chicks were divided into 4 treatments consisting of 5 replicates in each group and ten chicks in each replicate. Basal diet (T₁) prepared following BIS (2007) ^[2] standards and the experimental diets were prepared by incorporating antibiotic 0.02% of BMD (T₂), 0.1% sodium butyrate in pre-starter, 0.05% in starter and 0.025% in finisher (T₃) and 0.02% of antibiotic BMD and 0.1% sodium butyrate in pre-starter, 0.05% in starter and 0.025% in finisher (T₄). The results revealed that sodium butyrate and combination of sodium butyrate along with antibiotic BMD resulted in significant improvement (p≤0.05) in body weight, feed intake, feed efficiency and no significant improvement in survivability.