effect of garlic powder on performance and lipid profile of broilers大蒜粉对性能的影响和肉鸡血脂.pdfVIP

Vol.2, No.2, 62-68 (2012) Open Journal of Animal Sciences /10.4236/ojas.2012.22010 Effect of garlic powder on performance and lipid profile of broilers 1 2* Kamal Jamal Issa , J. M. Abo Omar 1Palestine Poultry Company, Tulkarm, Palestine 2Department of Animal Production, An Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine; * Corresponding Author: aboomar57@ Received 29 October 2011; revised 21 December 2011; accepted 31 December 2011 ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION This experiment was conducted to investigate The use of antibiotics as growth promoters is facing the effect of feeding garlic powder (GP) on the serious criticism [1]. There are some important reasons performance, digestibility, digestive organs, car- that restrict the use of antibiotics such as the drug resis- cass cuts and lipid profile of broilers. A total of tance in bacteria and the drug residues in meat [2]. To 270 day-old Cobb-500 chicks were used in the overcome the poor performance and the increase suscep- experiment. Birds were partitioned into three tibility to diseases resulted from removal of antibiotics experimental groups of 90 birds in each. Each from birds diets, attempts were made to find other alter- treatment was composed of 6 replicates with 15 natives. The utilization of growth promoters of natural birds in each. The control group was fed with a origin become of an interest in recent years [1]. Garlic commercial starter and finisher diet. The second