Enhancement Effect of Moringa olifera leaves Alcoholic Extract on Broiler Chicks’ Performance

Elshabrawy, Omnia Ibrahim; Ahmed, Mohamed Mohamed; Abdel El Deim, Mabrouk Attia; Orabi, Sahar Hassan; Abu-Alya, Ibrahim Said; ElBasuni, Hanem Kamal

doi:10.21608/jcvr.2022.240918

Enhancement Effect of Moringa olifera leaves Alcoholic Extract on Broiler Chicks’ Performance

Document Type : Original Article

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¹ Department of biochemistry and chemistry of nutrition, faculty of veterinary medicine, menofia university, Shebein el kom 32632, Egypt

² Department of biochemistry and Chemistry of Nutrition, Faculty of veterinary Medicine, University of Sadat City, Sadat City 23897, Egypt.

³ Department of biochemistry and Chemistry of Nutrition, Faculty of veterinary Medicine, Menofia University, Shebein Al kom 23623, Egypt.

⁴ Department of biochemistry and Chemistry of Nutrition, Faculty of veterinary Medicine, University of Sadat City, Sadat City 23897, Egypt

⁵ Department of Physiology, Faculty of veterinary Medicine, University of Sadat City, Sadat City 23897, Egypt.

10.21608/jcvr.2022.240918

Abstract

The current study was conducted to assess the consequences of Moringa oleifera leaves alcoholic extract (MOLE) based on growth performance and immunological response of broiler chicks. There was a total of a hundred and Eighty-one-day-old chicks were assigned at random into three dietary groups undergoing treatment with three replicates of 20 each bird. Control group was given drinking water without additives. The second and third groups were supplemented with MOLE at doses of 125 and 250 mg/L of water, respectively. Supplementation of broiler chicks with MOLE enhanced their growth performance represented by increasing final body weight, body weight gain, phagocytic activity and phagocytic index while significantly decreased feed intake and food conversion ratio. Moreover, it increased serum levels of insulin like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), interferon-gamma (IF-γ) and Immunoglobulin G (IgG).
This study indicated that Moringa oleifera extract in drinking water enhanced the growth performance and immunological response of broiler chicks through increasing protein expression of IGF-1, IF-γ.

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