| dc.description.abstract | The experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of blood meal supplement on growth
performance and hematological parameters in broiler chicks. The experiment was carried out with
60 selected homogenous sex and weight broiler chicks having 15 for each group. The layout of
the study was conducted with control group A, fed only with standard commercial broiler ration
and other groups viz. B, C, and D were fed with standard commercial ration in addition to 2.5 %,
5.0 %, and 7.5% of blood meal. The activities of broiler chicks, growth performance, weight loss
or gain and any kind of abnormalities were closely observed in every day and the body weight
was recorded at 7 days interval. During feeding of blood meal all treated groups were found
increased body weight at different level. The blood meal supplied to the broiler chicks increased
the growth performance that was directly proportionate to the rate of blood meal supplement with
water, because the ration was fixed for every group. In hematological observations, TEC, Hb
concentration and PCV were decreased but rap id decreasing occurs in group (B) that was
statistically significant (P<0.05). In this experiment during feeding of blood meal no clinical
symptoms were found markedly. But slight symptoms occur when fed 7.5 % blood meal. The
data were analyzed by least significance difference (LSD) with a computer program SPSS-11.50
(Statistical packages for social sciences). | en_US |
