Abstract

This study was conducted in the Poultry Farm belong to the Centre for Animal Resources and Fisheries in Agricultural Research Directorate/ Ministry of Science and Technology, from 4/4/2018 to 15/5/2018 for 42 days. The aim of this study was to find out effect of adding Green tea, as antioxidant and their effects on productive performance of broilers. One hundred of one-day old unsexed (Ross 308) chicks with average initial body weight of 41g/chick were used in this study. Chicks were randomly divided into five treatment, each treatments was sub-divided in two replicates (10 chicks per replicate). The treatments can be described as follows: T1 (control) without any addition, T2 ,T3, T4 and T5 supplemented with 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 and 1% green tea respectively. The results of this study showed a significant improvement (p<0.05) in live body weight, weight gain and feed conversion ratio for all additives treatments as compared with control. While a significant decrease was observed in accumulative feed consumption in all treatments as compared with control.

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