The effect of dietary supplementation with different levels of lycopene in live weight and weight of main parts of carcasses in males of local geese.

Abstract

This study was conducted at the poultry farm of Animal Resource department / College of Agriculture / University of Baghdad during the period from 20/11/2013 to 28/3/2014 to investigate the effect of different levels of dietary supplementation of lycopene in live weight , weight of carcasses, breast ,back , gizzard,wings,heart,neck and thigh of male local geese. A total of 24 local male geese , two years old, were randomly divided in to four groups according to concentrations of lycopene that add to the diet 0,300,600 and 900 mg/kg of diet were add to T1,T2,T3 and T4 respectively . Birds were fed during the whole period on diet contain 15.2 % crude protein and 2927.3 Kcal metabolic energy / kg. Lycopene was added to the diets of birds at the beginning till the end of experiment period. The birds were reared in single separated cages during the experiment period.Results revealed that dietary supplementation with different levels of lycopene resulted in:Significant increase in live weight and weight of carcase, breast ,back , Gizzard and wings compared with control group. Whereas , there was no Significant effected in weight of heart , neck and thighs compared with control group.