Vol. 9, Issue 2, Part B (2024)

Author(s): Seema Pathan, Suneet Wankhede, Vitthal Munde, Suhas Amrutkar, Kakasaheb Khose and S Sajid Ali

Abstract: An experiment entitled “Comparative efficacy of different forms of selenium along with vitamin E on performance of broiler chicken” was conducted to evaluate the growth performance, biochemical profile, carcass traits, meat quality, immunity, antioxidant status, metabolizability of nutrients, mortality rate and economics of broiler production. Two hundred and forty, day old (Vencobb-430Y) straight run commercial broiler chicks were distributed randomly into three treatment groups (T₁, T₂ and T₃) and control group (T₀₎. The experimental birds were fed standard broiler diet as per BIS (2007) without selenium along with vitamin E @ 100 mg/kg of feed (T₀) and basal diet supplemented with inorganic Se @ 0.2 mg/kg of feed (T₁), organic Se @ 0.2 mg/kg of feed (T₂) and Nano-Se @ 0.2 mg/kg of feed (T₃). At the end of 6^th week that parameters viz., FI, live body wt and weight gain were found to be non-significant. However, weekly feed conversion ratio were significantly (p<0.01) improved in T₃ group. Net profit per bird and economic efficiency were highest in T₃ treatment group followed by T₂, T₁ and T₀ group_. It was concluded that nano-selenium and vitamin E supplementation improved growth performance, carcass traits, meat quality, immunity, antioxidant status and thus found to be economical.