The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of added to different levels of rose water broiler diets on growth performance, some carcass parameters and intestinal histomorphology. In the literature on the conducted research, there are very few studies about the use of rose water in animal as feed additive. A total of 216 day-old chicks were randomly divided into 3 groups each containing 72 chicks. While the control group was fed with basic ration, the experimental groups were fed with rose water supplementation at 2% and 4% dose, respectively, in addition to the basic ration. At the end of the experiment, the use of rose water in the rations did not statistically affected live weight (LW), live weight gain (LWG) and feed intake (FI) values, but feed conversion ratio (FCR) value was adversely affected. In the study, hot carcass weight was positively affected while some internal organ weights did not affected by the addition rose water. On the 21st and 35th days of the experiment, when histolomorpfology of ileum and jejenum were examined, it was observed that villus height, crypt depth and villus height: crypt depth ratio were not affected by rose water addition. On the 21st day of the study, ileum and jejenum and on the 35th day of the study, ileum villus heights without sitatistical were positively affected by the addition of rose water. In conclusion, hot carcass weight and intestinal health were positively affected by rose water. However, performance and some internal organ weights did not affected.
We would like to thank Mr. Vet.Med. Öztürk SARICA, who gave us the rosewater he produced in "Lisinia Nature". We would like to thank Taner AYDIN for his support on grammer correction.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences |
Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | June 30, 2020 |
Acceptance Date | April 23, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 Volume: 35 Issue: 1 |