Vol. 9, Special Issue 5, Part C (2024)

Author(s): Shubhangi N Bansode, AB Motghare, Bhavana R Wankhade, VD Borkar, SR Munnarwar and Astha S Tekade

Abstract: An experiment was conducted at Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science Section, College of Agriculture, Nagpur during 2023-2024.The 120 one-day-old Kaveri chicks, were randomly distributed in 4 treatments with 3 replication. The Control group (T₁) was without Aloe vera powder, while chicks in treatment group T₂, T₃ and T₄ were fed basal diet with Aloe vera powder at 0.5%, 1.0% and 1.5% respectively. The experiment lasted for six weeks. The results of this study indicated that the average feed consumption (g/bird) at the end of 6^th week was recorded as 561.70, 567.58, 568.74, 572.98 g in T₁, T₂, T₃ and T₄ respectively. The significantly higher feed consumption was recorded in T4 group. The average body weight (g/bird) at the end of 6th week of age were, 739.35, 770.11, 790.60, 803.08 g in T₁, T₂, T₃ and T₄ respectively. The significant difference in weekly body weight was found from second week onward. The average weekly body weight gain higher observed in T4 than other treatment groups.