BLOOD PROFILE OF BROILER CHICKENS FED GRADED LEVELS OF MANGO LEAF POWDER
Abstract
The experiment was conducted to investigate the “Blood profile of broiler chickens fed graded levels of mango leaf powder”. A total birds of 150 day old Ross strain were used for the study and was randomly distributed to five treatments with three replicate of 15 birds per replica. The dietary treatments consisted of T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 with 0g, 0.1g, 0.2g, 0.3g and 4.0g supplementation of mango leaf powder in 4 litres of water. The experiment lasted for 6 weeks, and at the end of the 6th week, the birds were starved of feed overnight. Blood samples for analysis were taken from all replicates. Blood were collected from the chickens by venipuncture of wing vein and were collected into two different set of bijou bottles. The first set of bottles contain Ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetic acid (EDTA anti-coagulant) while the other set was without EDTA. Blood sample were labelled according to name and number of test/replicate and were sent to the laboratory for analysis on Red Blood Cell (RBC), White Blood Cell (WBC), Packed Cell Volume (PCV), Heamoglobin (HB), Means Corpuscular Volume (MCV), Total Protein (TP), Albumin, Cholesterol, and Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP). The results shows that mango leaf powder supplementation affect all the blood parameters significantly (p
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