Abstract
This study was aimed at investigating the meat performance of broiler Ross 308 after the application of bee pollen extract in their diet. The experiment group was fed with bee pollen (400 mg.kg-1) added in the feed. After analysis, it was found that the female chicken group’s average live body weight were higher in control group (2246.60 g) than that of experimental group (2194.40 g). Also, the carcass weight, giblelt weight and carcass yield percentage were high in the control group than in the experimental group. However, in case of male group, the average live body weight in experimental group (2354.60 g) were higher than control group (2299.20 g). In addition, the weights(g) of carcass, giblets, and carcass yield (%) were higher in the experimental group than control group, and there were no significant differences (P ≥ 0.05) among the experimental groups. Hence, it was concluded that bee pollen has positive effect on the growth of male chicken in terms of increasing the body weight, whereas it has negative effect on the female chickens. Key words: Broiler, pollen, carcass weight, live body weight, carcass yield
Highlights
The prominence of poultry production today is primarily due to the short generation interval and relatively quick turn over on investment and high quality protein from poultry products (Adeyemo et al, 2010)
Since the bee pollen stimulates the reproductive female hormones (Kolesarová et al, 2011), some energy are channeled to the reproductive system
The present results confirmed the reports of Angelovičová et al (2010) who found that the body weight of experimental (1773.53 g) broiler Ross 308 was higher than in control group (1708.48 g) by about 65.05 g, with the addition of bee pollen (0.10%)
Summary
The prominence of poultry production today is primarily due to the short generation interval and relatively quick turn over on investment and high quality protein from poultry products (Adeyemo et al, 2010). Production of poultry meat for the rapidly growing human population is an important system for supplying high-quality protein and provides an interesting source of finance (Gueye, 2009). The ratio of the composition of feed mixtures for chickens is important in terms of the required nutrients and energy. The increasing energy and nutrients in chickens’ feed mixtures are likely to increase their body weight without changing the quality of the carcasses of chickens (Donaldson et al, 1957; Combs and Nicholson, 1964; Saleh et al, 2004; Haščík et al, 2010). Bee pollen represents a source of more than 12 vitamins, 28 minerals, 11 enzymes or coenzymes, 11 carbohydrates (35 - 61%; mainly glucose, fructose and sucrose), free amino acids, flavonoids, carotenoids and phytosterols
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