The effects of cinnamon powder feeding on some blood aspects and performance of broiler chicken

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the effect of cinnamon powder on live weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion ratio, and some blood constituents. Three hundred one day-old broiler chickens (Ross308) were distributed into 15 pens with 20 chickens each, into five equal groups, comprising 3 replicates per treatment. The experimental treatments were fed as follows : a negative control diet without cinnamon T1 , 250 ppm of cinnamon T2 , 500 ppm of cinnamon T3 , 750 ppm of cinnamon T4 , and 1000 ppm of cinnamon T5 , and the feeding were carried out for 49 days.

The results showed that chickens fed with cinnamon powder (T2,T3,T4,T5) had significantly higher (p≤0.05) , live body weight gain , feed intake compared with control group (T1), but there were no significant between T1 and  all treatments except T5 on feed conversion ratio. Moreover the chickens fed with cinnamon powder had significant (p≤0.05) reducing serum glucose, cholesterol and triglyceride. In conclusion, cinnamon powder could be considered as a potential natural growth promoter for poultry due to the effect on some blood metabolites and broiler performance.