Effect of supplementations of vitamin E and organic selenium on productive performance of broiler breeders

Abstract

Nutrition supplementation in broiler breeder diets are necessary to provide the nutritional requirements for the optimal performance of the broiler breeder flock after significant genetic improvement of production performance. The study aimed to determine the effect of adding vitamin E and organic selenium to the diet of broiler breeder Rose 308 in the productive and reproductive traits. The experimental flock consist of 60 hens and 10 cocks at 41 weeks of age. The birds divided into four groups for treatments application, and each treatment had three replicates (five hens per replication). The first treatment T1 fed a standard diet without addition (control) containing 15% crude protein and metabolic energy 2775 kilocalories / kg of diet, and T2 used a standard diet and 500 mg vitamin E / kg of diet supplementation, and T3 used a standard ration plus 0.5 mg of organic selenium (Availa powder) / kg of diet supplementation, and T4 used a standard diet plus a mixture of vitamin E and organic selenium (Availa powder) in proportions 500 and 0.5 mg, respectively.