INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT WATER SANITIZERS ON THE PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE OF BROILER CHICKEN
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2021
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A biological experiment was conducted to study the influence of different water sanitizers on the production performance of broiler chicken. The experiment was carried out with three hundred and twenty Cobb 400 day old straight run broiler chicks from single hatch and reared up to 35 days of age under standard managemental condition. The chicks were wing banded, weighed and randomly allotted to eight treatment groups with five replicates of eight chicks each. The treatment groups consisted of T1 - Control (untreated water), T2 - Reverse Osmosis water, T3 - Chlorine water, T4 - Chlorine dioxide water, T5 - Hydrogen peroxide water, T6 - Ozonized water, T7 - UV treated water and T8 –Ozone+UV treated water. A basal broiler diet was formulated according to the Cobb 400 standard and fed to the birds throughout the study period.
During the experimental period, data on body weight, feed consumption and litter quality evaluation were recorded at weekly interval and water consumption on daily basis and mortality was recorded at occurrence. From the above data, body weight gain, feed conversion ratio, water to feed intake ratio and livability were calculated. At the end of the experiment (35th day), one male and one female per replicate, totally ten birds per treatment group were randomly selected and blood samples were collected for analysis of serum biochemical parameters later the birds were slaughtered and recorded slaughter parameters and abdominal fat weight. The thigh and breast muscle samples were collected from each carcass and the protein content was estimated. An intestinal cut from loop of duodenum was taken to measure intestinal villi length. Litter samples were collected from each replicate and analysed for moisture, pH, electrical conductivity and total dissolved solids.