Impact of bee pollen as feed supplements on the body weight of broiler Ross 308

Abstract

This study was aimed at investigating the meat performance of broiler Ross 308 after the application of bee pollen extract in their diet. The experiment group was fed with bee pollen (400 mg.kg-1) added in the feed.  After analysis, it was found that the female chicken groupfs average live body weight were higher in control group (2246.60 g) than that of experimental group (2194.40 g). Also, the carcass weight, giblelt weight and carcass yield percentage were high in the control group than in the experimental group. However, in case of male group, the average live body weight in experimental group (2354.60 g) were higher than control group  (2299.20 g). In addition, the weights (g) of carcass, giblets, and carcass yield (%) were higher in the  experimental group than control group, and there were no significant differences (P . 0.05) among the  experimental groups. Hence, it was concluded that bee pollen has positive effect on the growth of male chicken in terms of increasing the body weight, whereas it has negative effect on the female chickens.

Key words: Broiler, pollen, carcass weight, live body weight, carcass yield.