Effect of garlic powder (Allium sativum) as feed additive on native chicken performances



Yuli Frita Nuningtyas(1*), Osfar Sjofjan(2), I H Djunaidi(3), H Natsir(4)

(1) Faculty of Animal Science, University of Brawijaya, Malang-65145, Indonesia
(2) Faculty of Animal Science, University of Brawijaya, Malang-65145, Indonesia
(3) Faculty of Animal Science, University of Brawijaya, Malang-65145, Indonesia
(4) Faculty of Animal Science, University of Brawijaya, Malang-65145, Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


The aim of this research was to evaluate the effect of Garlic Powder as feed additive
on native chickens performances. A total number of 300 native chickens were divided into 5
treatments; there were 5 replications in every cage has 12 birds per replications. Native chicken
were fed with 5 experimental diets, basal diet and diets with 0.25%, 0.30%, 0.35% and 0.40%
of Garlic Powder. The respective native chickens performance were determined every week.
Data were collected every week consist of feed consumption, daily body weight, and Feed
convertion ratio (FCR). The data was analyzed using GLM in a windows-based software
package, SAS version 9.1. The differences were tested by LSM. Significant level used in the
group comparisons was set at p<5%. The addition of garlic powder as feed additive has
significantly effect (P < 0.05) on average body weight and feed conversion ratio. However, the
addition of garlic powder as feed additive did not significantly affect (P > 0.05) on feed
consumption. The addition of 0.35% of garlic powder improves performances of native
chickens including average body weight and feed conversion ratio.


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