Effects of black saffron supplement on growth performance of Tau Vang chicken period 7-14 weeks of age

Abstract

A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of black saffron supplement on the growth performance of Tau Vang chicken in 7-14 week old period. It was a completely randomized design with 5 treatments corresponding to 5 diets and 4 replications with 10 birds per experimental unit. The treatments were the different black saffron supplement levels of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 % (in DM) to basal diet, corresponding to the S0, S01, S02, S03 and S04 treatments. The results showed that the daily intakes of DM, OM, CP, EE and ME were significantly higher (P<0.05) for the 3 last treatments (the S02, S03 and S04 treatments). The significantly higher daily weight gain, final live weight and the lower FCR were found for the S03 treatment (P<0.05). The black saffron supplement in the diets of Tau Vang chicken improved the carcass, breast meat and thigh meat weights (P<0.05). The adding black saffron into the diet, the triglyceride and total cholesterol index in the blood of local chicken decreases, which is good for the health of chicken. Consumers using low triglyceride and total cholesterol chicken meat will be good for their health as well. It was concluded that black saffron supplementation in the diet at a level of 0.4% DM improved growth performance for growing Tau Vang chicken production and it showed that black saffron made quantification of triglyceride and quantification of total cholesterol in chicken blood decrease.