EFFECT OF ADDING DIFFERENT LEVELS OF OLEUROPEIN TO BROILERS DIETS ON PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE AND SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL TRAITS

Abstract

This study has been carried out in the Station of Poultry Researches which is affiliated to the General Office of Agricultural Researches / Ministry of Agriculture during the period from 25/02/2019 to 08/04/2019 (42)days .Five hundred unsexed one day old chick of type (Ross 308) used in this study, and has been fed on diets which oleuropeinin has been added to it with the levels 2,2.5,3 and3.5 g/kg as a feed for the treatments T2 , T3 , T4 and T5 respectively and compared to the control treatment T1 which is devoid of addition, every treatment included Four replicates each one has 25 birds in order to study the effect of adding a various levels of oleuropein into the diet on the production and physiological performance for broilers. The result has showed a significant increasing (P<0.05) in average body weight and average feed consumption by birds of the treatments T2 , T3 , T4 and T5 compared to the control treatment T1 which has led to the significant increasing (P<0.05) in feed conversion ratio during the test period. The obtained results showed a significant decrease (P <0.01) in cholesterol, triglycerides, VLDL in plasma Blood for T2, T3, T4 and T5 to compared with T1. There were no significant differences between the control treatment and experimental treatments in HDL, LDL and albumin. The results showed a significant increasing (P <0.01) in Total protein and globulin in plasma Blood for T2 , T3 , T4 and T5 to compared with T1. We conclude from this study the possibility of adding 2-3.5 g/kg feed of oleuropein into the diet to obtain a positive improvement on the productive performance of meat broilers.