Effects of Formic Acid Supplementation  at Incremental Levels on Growth  Performance and Carcass Traits of Broiler  Chickens

Abhijit Mishra; Subhasish Ray; Samir Kumar Sarkar; Sudipto Haldar

Volume : II, Issue : XI, November - 2013

Effects of Formic Acid Supplementation at Incremental Levels on Growth Performance and Carcass Traits of Broiler Chickens

Abhijit Mishra, Subhasish Ray, Samir Kumar Sarkar, Sudipto Haldar

Abstract :

The effects of inclusion of formic acid at incremental dose levels in the diet of oiler chickens were studied in this experiment. A straight–run flock of 2000 1–d old Cobb 400 chicks were assigned randomly into five dietary treatments each with four replicates (n= 100 chicks per replicate). The diets were iso–caloric and iso–nitrogenous and consisted of a corn–soybean based basal diet (T0), T0 supplemented with formic acid at the rate of 1% (T1), 1.5% (T2) and 2% (T3) at the expense of maize. Supplementation of formic acid at 1.5% and 2% dose rates improved (P