EFFICACY OF SUPPLEMENTATION OF HERBAL METHIONINE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL LAYERS
S. J. Manwar, D. H. Rekhate, M. V. Joshi, S. P. Waghmare, S. V. Kuralkar, Kotagiri Ravikanth,
Ankush Reothia*
ABSTRACT
40 one day old commercial layer chicks of BV 300 strain were randomly divided into two treatment groups with two replicates of 10 chicks each and reared under deep litter system of housing. Group T1 was positive control fed with the basal diet without any natural or synthetic source of methionine. Group T2 was test group fed with the basal diet supplemented with herbal methionine, Methiorep @ 500g/ton of feed for a period of 0 to 38 weeks (supplied by M/S Ayurvet Ltd., Baddi, India). Methiorep supplemented birds showed higher body weight throughout the experimental period as compared to unsupplemented control group. Hen housed egg production (HHEP) was also found to be higher in Methiorep supplemented birds (76.06) as compared to control group (70.80). Feed efficiency per dozen eggs produced was also found to be better in Methiorepsupplemented group (1.49) birds as compared to control group birds (1.65). From the results of the study it can be concluded that supplementation of Methiorep elicited growth performance and egg production performance in commercial layers.
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