The Effect of Locally Extracted aloe vera Oil on the Productive Performance of ISA Brown Laying Hens

Abstract

Abstract The study was conducted at poultry field, Agricultural Research and Experiment Station at the College of Agriculture, Al-Muthanna University, to determine the effect of locally extracted aloe vera oil on some productive traits of ISA Brown laying hens, from 5/6/2022 to 5/9/2022. A total of 162, twenty-one-week-old ISA Brown laying hens were used, birds were randomly distributed to nine treatments with three replicates for each, 18 birds per treatment (6 birds for each replicate), the treatments were followed; T1: without any addition, as for the treatments T2, T3, T4 and T5, they were local aloe vera oil and the treatments T7, T6, T8 and T9, they were imported aloe vera oil, the addition of oil was at the levels 0.3 and 0.4 per kg feed. The results indicate that there were a significant improvement (P≤0.05) on some productive traits (egg production, egg weighte, feed conversion and egg mass), for all treatments of locally extracted oil compared to the control treatment and imported oil, T3 showed the best results, significantly (P≤0.05) compared to the rest of the treatments of the oil extracted locally.