Effect of lacquer (Rhus verniciflua) supplementation on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, carcass traits and serum profile of broiler chickens

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This experiment was conducted to explore the efficacy of lacquer (Rhus verniciflua) supplementation on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, carcass traits and serum biochemical values in commercial broilers. Light hundred and forty Hubbard broiler chicks (1d old) were randomly distributed and allotted to four dietary treatments for five weeks. Each treatment had 5 replicates with 42 birds each. The dietary treatments were (1) control (2) 1% lacquer. (3) 2% lacquer and 4) 4% lacquer supplied as meal in the diet. Supplementation with lacquer improved weight gain (p = 0.0960) showing a linear trend during the starter phase (0-3 wk). but weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion ratio remained unaffected at the finisher phase (4-5 wk) and overall (0-5 wk) nutrient digestibility studies conducted after 18 and 35 days of experimental feeding showed a linear (p < 0.05) increase in digestibility of(T and ether extract at both measurement timess. The carcass studies were conducted on two birds per replicate ( 10 pet, treatment) at the end of both 3 and 5 wk. The dressing percentage, liver weight, heart weight. abdominal fat and the breast meat expressed as it percentage of live weight. did not differ significantly due to treatments at both phases. The serum cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein (111)1,) showed a linear decrease (p = 0.0683 and p = 0.0322, respectively) as the level of supplementation increased at 3 wk. at 5 wk serum cholesterol. HDL and triglyceride levels decreased significantly showing a positive linear effect of lacquer on fat metabolism, The meat color values such as lightness, redness and yellowness did not reveal any significant trend. Overall, it could be concluded that lacquer Supplementation at higher levels did not affect growth performance, but had a positive impact on fiat metabolism by influencing flat digestibility and reducing serum cholesterol and triglyceride.

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