Effect of dietary Ginger ( Zingiber officinale ) root powder on some production parameters of broiler males

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Effect of dietary Ginger ( Zingiber officinale ) root powder on some production parameters of broiler malesAbstractThe aim of this study was to determine the effect of adding 0.0 , 0.4 , 0.6 and 0.8 % of dried ginger root powder ( Zingiber officinale ) in diet on some production parameters of broiler males . A total of 444 day old broiler breeder male chicks were distrbuted into 4 treatments and each treatment into 3 replicates (37 chicks per replicate). Feeding trial started at one day old to 56 day . Results indicated that the adding 0.4 , 0.6 and 0.8 % of dried ginger powder (treatments T2 , T3 and T4 respectively) significantly (P<0.05) in hanced live body weight , weight gain , feed efficiency and decreased mortality compaired with control (T1). Broilers of T4 recored singnificant (P<0.05) increase in performance compaired with other ginger treatments at the end of this study (56 days) which predominant in live weight (2230.0 g) and cumulative weight gain ( 2188.66 g ) and feed efficiency from 1-56 days( 2.14 g of feed/ g weight gain) also low in mortality ( 0.67 %) .