Abstract
Day old commercial broiler chicks (No.=150) were distributed equally into five groups of 30 chicks each which were further replicated to three groups of ten each. The chicks were placed on one of the dietary treatments i.e. basal diet without any supplement (CON) or 0.125% antibiotic growth promoter (AGP) or 3 levels of turmeric powder i.e 0.5% (TP5), 1.0% TP (TP10) and 1.5% TP (TP15). At the end of of the experiment, the birds of antibiotic growth promoter group had highest (P 0.05) by treatments. Carcass traits like dressing yield, giblet weight, cooking loss, pH, shear force and proximate composition was not affected by treatments whereas separable fat and meat cholesterol level reduced (P<0.05) in broiler chickens fed diet supplemented with 1.0 or 1.5% turmeric powder. Dietary treatments did not affect sensory characteristics of carcass. Hence, dietary turmeric powder @ 1.0% could be used as an alternative to antibiotic growth promoter in broiler chicken.
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