Vol. 11, Special Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Sambandhan, M Arivazhagan, C Bala Guru, Anandasekarana and M Sedhumadhavan

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted in commercial broilers for a period of six weeks to study the effect of dietary supplementation of Withania somnifera and cyproheptadine on serum biochemistry of broiler chicken. 120 numbers of day old sex separated broiler chicks, were wing banded, weighed and randomly allotted to six treatment groups with two replicates of ten chicks each. The treatment groups consisted of group 1 [basal diet]; group 2 [basal diet + Withania somnifera 0.5% extract], group 3 [basal diet + Withania somnifera 1% extract], group 4 [basal diet+ cyproheptadine 1 mg /kg] group 5 [basal diet + cyproheptadine 1 mg/kg + Withania somnifera 0.5% extract] group 6 [basal diet + cyproheptadine 1 mg/kg + Withania somnifera 1% extract]. Withania somnifera either alone or in combination with cyproheptadine had no adverse effects on biochemical parameters of serum which proves that both Withania somnifera and cyproheptadine are neither hepatotoxic nor nephrotoxic as per dose rates used in this study.