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11. Efficacy of pine leaves as
an alternative bedding material for broiler chicks during summer
season - Gourav Sharma, Asma Khan,
Surender Singh and Ashok Kumar Anand
Veterinary World, 8(10): 1219-1224
doi:
10.14202/vetworld.2015.1219-1224
Gourav
Sharma:
Division of Livestock Production and Management, Faculty of
Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir
University
of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu, R.S.Pura, Jammu -
181 102, Jammu and Kashmir, India; dr.gourav3152@gmail.com
Asma
Khan:
Division of Livestock Production and Management, Faculty of
Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir
University
of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu, R.S.Pura, Jammu -
181 102, Jammu and Kashmir, India; asmakhan_70@yahoo.co.in
Surender Singh:
Division of Livestock Production and Management, Faculty of
Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir
University
of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu, R.S.Pura, Jammu -
181 102, Jammu and Kashmir, India; surindersingh185@gmail.com
Ashok
Kumar Anand: Division of Livestock Production and Management,
Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir
University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu,
R.S.Pura, Jammu - 181 102, Jammu and Kashmir, India;
ashokkumaranand91@gmail.com
Received: 20-05-2015, Revised: 01-09-2015, Accepted: 08-09-2015,
Published online: 22-10-2015
Corresponding author:
Gourav Sharma, e-mail: dr.gourav3152@gmail.com
Citation:
Sharma G, Khan A,
Singh S, Anand AK (2015) Efficacy of pine leaves as an alternative
bedding material for broiler chicks during summer season,
Veterinary World 8(10): 1219-1224.
Abstract
Aim:
The aim was to assess the efficacy of pine leaves as an
alternative bedding material on the performance of broiler chicks.
Materials and Methods: The present study was conducted in
summer. Total 120, day old Vencobb straight run chicks were
procured, and after 5 days of brooding, chicks were randomly
distributed into four treatment groups viz. paddy husk (Group I),
paddy straw (Group II), pine leaves (Group III), and combination
of paddy straw and pine leaves (Group IV), each having 30 chicks
with 3 replicates of 10 chicks each. Chicks were reared under
intensive conditions in houses that have a semi-controlled
environment, with optimum temperature and adequate ventilation.
Food and water were provided as per NRC (1994) requirement.
Results: The average body weight after 6 weeks of the
experiment was 2018.83±31.11, 1983.80±33.27, 2007.36±35.73, and
1938.43±36.35 g. The bedding type had no significant effect on the
carcass characteristics viz. evisceration rate and proportion of
cut-up parts of the carcass except giblet yield. The experiment
suggested that performance of broiler chicks reared on paddy straw
and pine leaves as litter material, had improved body weight and
feed conversion ratio as compared to rearing on paddy husk as
bedding material. Bacterial count, parasitic load and the N, P, K
value of manure of different bedding material shows no significant
difference.
Conclusion: Pine leaves have a potential to be used as an
alternative source of litter material to economize poultry
production in a sustainable way, so as to make poultry farming as
a profitable entrepreneur.
Keywords: litter material, paddy husk, paddy
straw, pine leaves.
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