Open AccessEffect of orally administrated of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) seed juice on the performance and carcass parameters of broiler chickens
Author(s) -
Jet Saartje Mandey,
Fenny R. Wolayan,
Cherly J. Pontoh,
Youdhie H. S. Kowel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/492/1/012025
Subject(s) - broiler , cucumis , abdominal fat , completely randomized design , zoology , food science , liter , cholesterol , biology , body weight , chemistry , botany , biochemistry , endocrinology
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of cucumber ( Cucumis sativus ) seed juice in drinking water on the performance and carcass parameters of broiler chickens. A total of 200 DOC of broilers were used for the research. The experiment utilized a completely randomized design in arrangement of four treatments. Each treatment was divided into 5 replications (10 birds each) drank from 8 to 35 d. The birds were housed in battery cages with ad libitum access to feed and water. The treatments were given cucumber seed juice at different concentrations (0, 10, 20, 30 g per liter water, respectively). During which, feed intake, carcass yield, abdominal fat, giblet, blood LDL-cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol were measured. Data were subjected to the analysis of variance test followed by honestly significant difference test. Results showed that the diet with cucumber in drinking water was significantly decreased abdominal fat percentage, and increased blood LDL-cholesterol, and also feed conversion, but were no affected to final body weight, giblet, the value of blood HDL-cholesterol, and kept the good value of carcass percentage. It can be concluded that cucumber seed juice in drinking water could be acceptable up to 30 g per liter water.