Effect of Herbal Mixture Tom Yum Accessories Supplemented on Production Performances of Commercial Thai Native Crossbred Chicken

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the effect of Herbal Mixture Tom Yum Accessories in the diets on productive performance. The experiment was assigned in the completely randomized design (CRD). 480 birds about a day old were randomized to 6 groups, each group with 4 replications and each replication with 20 birds. The dietary treatments were controlled diet (T1), control diet supplemented with 0.10% chlortetracycline (T2) and control diet supplemented with 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 and 1.00% of herbal mixture tom yum accessories (T3, T4, T5 and T6) respectively. The experiment was conducted for 16 weeks. All the birds were rear in open house system, drinking water, and feed were unlimited. Data collection as average dairy gain, Feed conversion ratio, Feed intake, Feed efficiency, Mortality percentage and Feed cost were recorded. The Statistic was used ANOVA and compare mean with Duncan's New Multiple Range Test (DMRT). The research was found that average dairy gain, feed conversion ratio, feed efficiency and mortality percentage were expressed with no statistically significant difference (P>0.05). The feed intake of T3 was a statistically significant difference from the other groups (P<0.05). Therefore, the supplementation of Herbal Mixture Tom Yum Accessories did not negative affect to production performance.