Vol. 10, Issue 5, Part D (2025)

Author(s): Gajendra Kumar Verma and Mahesh Datt

Abstract: An experiment was carried out during 19^th November to 6^th February, 2023 during winter season at Poultry Farm, S.K.N. College of Agriculture, Jobner, Jaipur, (Rajasthan), and India, to study the impact of ginger powder supplementation on body weight of kuroiler chick. There were four treatment groups in the experiment, each consisting of thirty chicks, and each group was further subdivided into three replicates of ten chicks each. The experiment was set up using a Complete Randomized Design (CRD). Among the treatments were the basal diet was given to the T₀ treatment, while the basal diet with 0.5%, 7.5%, and 1% ginger powder were given to the T₁, T₂ and T₃ treatments. The treatment T₃ that was 1% ginger showed the better feed conversion ratio of 2.90^d±0.04, which was substantially different (p<0.05) from the other treatment. The average cumulative FCR in the first to fifth week of age showed no significantly difference. The addition of ginger powder considerably (p<0.05) decreased the FCR value from the sixth week to the end of the experiment, increasing the efficiency of nutrient utilization.

DOI: 10.22271/veterinary.2025.v10.i5d.2265