Affiliation:
1. Investment Plan Division/Planning and Follow-up Department/Ministry of Agriculture
2. Department of Animal Production/College of Agricultural Engineering/University of Baghdad
Abstract
This study was conducted in the poultry fields of the College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences / University of Baghdad from 10/15/2021 to 11/25/2021.To
know the effect of adding different levels of Ganoderma lucidum to broiler diets on
productive performance. 200 unsexed (Ross 308) chicks of one day age with a
starting weight of (40) g were used. The chicks were randomly distributed into four
treatments and 50 birds. One treatment included five replicates (10 birds/replicate),
and the experimental treatments was as follows: T1, T2, T3, T4, and the percentages of adding reishi mushroom were 0, 0.5, 1, and 1.5 g/kg of feed, respectively, and the birds were fed on three starter diets, growth and final diets, The
results of this study showed a significant increase (p<0.05) in the body weight
rates, feed conversion factor, weight gain rate, and decreased belly fat for treatments T2, T3, and T4 to which reishi mushrooms were added in the diet of 0.5, 1,
and 1.5 g/kg of feed, respectively. With control treatment (T1) without addition. It
was noted that there was a significant increase (P<0.05) in the average of feed
consumed for treatments T1, T2 and T3 compared to treatment T4. There was a
significant increase in the relative weight of the Breast cut for treatments T1, T2,
and T4 compared to treatment T3.
Keywords: average body weight, weight gain, feed consumed, food conversion
ratio, reishi mushrooms, major cuts.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Epidemiology,Biotechnology