The effect of different levels of Hesperidin in diet on some fertility and hatchability traits of local Chicken

Abstract

This study was conducted at the Poultry Farm which followed to Department of Animal production , College of Agriculture, University of Baghdad from 18 / 2 / 2017 to 18 / 5 / 2017 to investigated the effect of dietary supplementation with different levels of Hesperidin to diet on some fertility and hatchability traits of local Chicken were used in the experiment 160 bared (120 females and 40 males) at 18 weeks of age. The Chickens were distributed randomly at 20 week of age in four treatments ,about one replicate for males and three replicates for females of each treatment .The Chicken were fed along experiment period(12 week) on the same diet contain 17.42% curd protein and 2751.7 kcal metabolic energy /kg feed. The Hesperidin added to the rations from 20th week of age until the end of experiment . The Chickens (male and female) were reared in separated cages from each other during the experiment period . The experiment treatments were : control T1: 0 mg of Hesperidin . treatment T2 : 150 mg Hesperidin / kg of feed. Second treatment T3 : 300 mg Hesperidin / kg of feed. Third treatment T4 : 450 mg Hesperidin / kg of feed. The results of the adding of Hesperidin to the ration showed : Significant improvement in properties of fertility, hatchability of total eggs, hatchability of fertile eggs and embryonic mortality.