TITLE:
Performance, Immune, and Carcass Characteristics of Broiler Chickens as Affected by Thyme and Licorice or Enzyme Supplemented Diets
AUTHORS:
Majid Kalantar, Seyed Mahdi Hosseini, Liguo Yang, Sayed Haider Abbas Raza, Linsheng Gui, Mostafa Rezaie, Mahdi Khojastekey, Dawei Wei, Rajwali Khan, Sulthattin Yasar, Shahid Faraz Syed, Allah Bux Kachiwal, Mohamed Elkhairey, Qijing Lei, Rameez Raja Kaleri, Ayman Hassan Abd El-Aziz
KEYWORDS:
Broiler, Enzyme, Licorice, Thyme
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Animal Sciences,
Vol.7 No.2,
April
17,
2017
ABSTRACT: Numbers of 300 day-old broiler chickens through a
CRD design with 5 treatments, 3 replicates and 20 chicks in each pen were used
to evaluate the effect of thyme (T), licorice (L), thyme + licorice (TL), and
enzyme supplemented (E) diets on performance, immune and carcass
characteristics. According to the results, performance traits, immune indices,
and carcass traits in herbal medicine and enzyme supplemented diets were
improved significantly than control diet (P