Effect of dietary supplementation of garlic, ginger and their combination on feed intake, growth performance and economics in commercial broilers

Abstract

Aim:The present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of supplementation of garlic, ginger and their combination in the diets of broiler chickens and assessment in terms of feed intake, growth performance and economics of feeding.Materials and Methods:A total of 240 1-day-old Cobb-400 broiler chicks were randomly assigned to four dietary treatments each with three replicates of 20 chicks per replicate (n=60). Four experimental diets were formulated in such a way that control diet (T1) contained neither ginger nor garlic. While, birds in group T2 and T3 were fed with diets containing 1% garlic and ginger, respectively. Diet 4 (T4 group) contained a combination of 1% of garlic and ginger. The feeding experiment was carried out for 42 days, and different parameters evaluated includes feed intake, weight gain, feed conversion ratio, gut morphometry, and economics of feeding in terms of return over feed cost (ROFC) and European Performance Efficiency Index.Results:Feed intake of experimental birds in ginger and mixture of garlic and ginger supplemented groups, i.e., T3 and T4 groups have significantly (p<0.05) higher feed intake as compared to control. While, feeding of garlic have non-significant effect on feed intake as compared to other groups. A body weight gain (g/bird) was found to be significantly (p<0.05) higher in garlic (T2 group) and ginger (T3 group) supplemented group as compare to control and garlic and ginger mixture supplemented group (T4 group). Feed conversion ratio was significantly (p<0.05) lower in ginger (T3 group) supplemented group as compare to other groups. Mean villi length, villi width and cryptal depth were significantly (p<0.05) higher in T3 group than rest of all three groups, indicating increased absorptive surface area. ROFC was significantly (p<0.05) lower in T3 and T4 groups as compare to control. However, it was not significantly different between control and T2 group.Conclusion:On the basis of the results of the study, it is concluded that supplementation of garlic improves the performance of broilers when added at the rate of 1% of broiler ration and can be a viable alternative to antibiotic growth promoter in the feeding of broiler chicken.

Ameliorative effects of oral ginger and/or thyme aqueous extracts on productive and reproductive performance of V‐line male rabbits

“…Otherwise, there are three possible ways to action of thymol: first is to reduce hurtful microbiota; the second is to strengthen the antioxidant system due to the polyphenols components (Abdulkarimi, Daneshyar, & Aghazadeh, 2011) and the third may be due to increased feed utilization and enhanced immunity (Ghazalah & Ali, 2008). Karangiya et al (2016) reported that ginger as a natural growth promoter could be a potential alternative for common artificial growth promoters such as antimicrobial and antioxidant. They found that nine compounds in ginger may be Improvement in body weight of male rabbits fed ginger may be due to the active ingredients in ginger, which stimulates digestive enzymes and improves digestion in general and thus leads to increase body weight.…”

Exploring alternatives to antibiotics as health promoting agents in poultry- a review

“…Since, the identification of its anti-microbial activity across different groups of organisms (Brut, 2004;Murali et al, 2012) (both gram positive and gram negative organisms). In view of animal production especially in monogastrics (pigs and poultry production) they are mainly used as an alternative antibiotic growth promoter (Khaksar et al, 2012;Karangiya et al, 2016). Although, the exact mechanism of action is not yet known they have been found to favourably alters the gut micro-flora by reducing the number of pathogenic organisms (Salim, 2011).…”

“…Several benefits of phytobiotics have been elucidated in past (Lee et al, 2004;Windisch et al, 2008;Salim, 2011;Gopi et al, 2014b;Dhama et al, 2014b;Karangiya et al, 2016) and summarized as below:…”

Metabolic activities and health indices of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) fed varying levels of Zingiber officinale root

“…This is in agreement with the work of [27] who recorded similar increase in weight gain of fish when fed diets supplemented with Walnut leaf and Onion bulb residues. This was corroborated by the work of [28] who showed that supplementation of garlic improves the performance of broilers when added at the rate of 1% and can be an alternative to antibiotic growth promoter in the feeding of broiler chicken. The increase in the growth rate of C. gariepinus in the first few weeks of culture in the study may be due to initial starvation of the fish which made them more metabolically active, which is similar to [29] observation in juvenile Heterotis niloticus.…”