Performance production of grower native chickens fed with phytobiotics and maggot-based feed

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the effects of phytobiotics in drinking water on the production performance of native chickens. The research used a completely randomized design with 3 treatments. A total of 3000 six-week-old native chickens were randomly allocated to 3 drinking program treatments as follows: regular drinking program as control (T0), drink water mixed with powdered turmeric extract (T1), drink water mixed with powdered turmeric extract combined commercial probiotic (T2), each treatment had 2 replicates. Commercial probiotic and powdered turmeric extract were given in the morning until afternoon, then the remaining drinking water was measured. The feed given came from Maggnesia of Vocational school IPB which applied as point feed. The variables that observed were feed consumption, drinkin’ consumption, body weight, weight gain, feed conversion ratio, and mortality. We used ANOVA analysis and followed by Tukey Test. Treatment P2 (Tumeric extract combined commercial probiotic) is significantly different and had better results than the other treatments in several variables that observed. It also had the highest average in body weight and body weight gain. Phytobiotics can be used by everyone because the ingredients are easy to find, and had good effect for carcasses.