Livability and growth performance of Noiler chickens fed with different biotic additives

Abstract

Liveability and mortality rate is a germane aspect of production performance that cannot be overlooked in poultry production. The study was conducted to investigate the effect of different biotic additives (prebiotic, probiotic and synbiotic) on performance of Noiler female at the growing phase (forty-nine days) till point of first egg across the biotic additive (twenty-one days). A total of one hundred and twenty-eight female Noiler were used for the experiment. Experimental treatment consisted of prebiotic, probiotic, synbiotic and control at inclusion rate of a gram into a kilo gramme of feed. Parameters measured are: Feed intake, feed conversion ratio, weight of first egg, age of first egg and livability. Data collected were subjected to one-way analysis of variance. The result obtained revealed a better growth performance across the treatments than the control group with the least final weight. Prebiotic treatment had the best age at first lay on day one hundred and thirty-seven followed by other treatments on day one hundred and fifty-four. However, the size of the eggs was not significantly influenced by the biotic additive. Hence, the experiment can be concluded that inclusion of different biotic additives influenced the growth performance likewise Prebiotic had significant effect on the age of first laying in Noiler chicken and liveability was a hundred percentage throughout the duration of the experiment.