Haematology, Serum Biochemistry and Egg Lipid Profile of Laying Hens Fed Diets Supplemented With Moringa Oleifera and Senna Occidentalis Leaf Meal Composite Mixture
- February 25, 2021
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Animal Science, IJRSI
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VIII, Issue II, February 2021 | ISSN 2321–2705
Obasoyo, D.O. and Omoikhoje, S.O*
Department of Animal Science, Ambrose Alli University, P.M.B 14, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria.
Corresponding author*
Abstract :A feeding trial was carried out to assess the effect of Moringaoleifera leaf meal (MOLM) and Senna occidentalis leaf meal (SOLM) composite mixture on their haematology, serum chemistry and egg lipid profile of total of 150 Isa brown layers of sixteen weeks of age. Thirty (30) chicks were randomly selected and allocated to each of the five (5) treatment groups (T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5) in a completely randomized design (CRD) in a battery cage system. Each treatment group contained three (3) replicates with ten (10) birds per replicate and the feeding trial lasted for ten (10) weeks. The experimental treatment included the control (maize – soya bean meal basal diet with oxytetracyline administered to the birds through drinking water) as T1, T2 (same basal diet was mixed with 0.5% MOLM + 2.0% SOLM), T3 (same basal diet was added with 1.0% MOLM + 1.5% SOLM), T4 (same basal diet was added with 1.5% MOLM + 1.0% SOLM) and T5 (same basal diet was mixed with 2.0% MOLM + 0.5% SOLM) and T2 to T5were without antibiotic in the water. MOLM and SOLM blend significantly (P<0.05) affected all the haematological and serum biochemical indices measured except for creatinine values that were not affected. Total cholesterol, triglyeride, low density lipoprotein (LDL) and very density lipoprotein (vLDL) values of eggs laid by the hens were reduced significantly (P<0.05) but high density lipoprotein (HDL) values were increased significantly (P<0.05) by the supplementation of MOLM and SOLM mixture compared to the control group. Therefore, a mixture of 2.0%MOLM and 0.5%SOLM could be included in the diets laying hens without any adverse effect on the blood profileand to improve the lipid profile of eggs as well as an alternative to antibiotics in laying hens.
Key words: Antibiotics, haematology, layers, lipid profile, serum chemistry
I. INTRODUCTION
Poultry production is one of the most popular livestock enterprise adopted by small and medium scale farmers in both rural and urban areas as it offers the highest turnover rate and quick return on investment amongst the livestock farming options (Afolayan et al., 2014). Even though the benefit of poultry production is being eroded by high cost of feed and diseases, there had been an exponential increase in the productivity of modern poultry stocks of both meat and egg
