Authors : Berkane Fethia, Bouderoua Kaddour, Ait-Saada Djamel and Selselet- Attou Ghalem
Abstract: It is now known that the use of natural resources and food additives rich in bioactive nutrients in poultry diets offer better digestive use and have a proven health impact. In this context, the use of green oak acorn added of calcium bentonite are better suited to these tests to improve growth and enrich the meat with a some nutrients able to limiting the meat lipoperoxidation. In addition, the breeding battery mode compared to the ground mode offers better conditions and improves productivity. This study consists of evaluating the effects of diets based on green oak acorns supplemented with calcium bentonite on growth performance of broilers. The 300 broilers one day-old of the ISA F15 strain were divided into two groups, one raised on the ground and the other in cages. Each group was divided into three subgroups. Each subgroup receives either a standard diet without addition of acorn or bentonite constituting the Diet Control (DC), a diet with 19.8 g/kg of Oak Acorn (OA) without bentonite and another diet of 19, 8 g/kg of OA added of 2 g/kg of calcium bentonite (OAB). At 35 days-old, the animals reared on battery mode showed the best growth performance compared to those raised on the ground (p<0.05) (1239 vs. 1262 g). However, the incorporation of OA slightly affects the broilers productive performance (p<0.05) compared to the control (DC vs OA; 1239.2 vs. 1088 g). However, at the 56th day-old , the diet OAB diet produces the best beneficial effects on growth performance (OAB vs. OA: 2149 g vs. 1869 g) compared to the OA diet without bentonite. This experiment suggests that the use of green oak acorn in chicken feed is therefore, quite possible and the addition of 2% calcium bentonite shows the best beneficial effects on growth performance and improvement of health status.
Berkane Fethia, Bouderoua Kaddour, Ait-Saada Djamel and Selselet- Attou Ghalem, 2021. Effects of Green Oaks Acorns (Quercus ilex) Based Diets Added of Calcium Bentonite on Growth Performance of Broilers Reared in the Cages and Ground Modes. Research Journal of Agronomy, 15: 7-11.