Effect of dietary supplementation of inorganic and organic trace minerals on the performance of broiler chickens

Day old broiler chicks (Cobb 400, n=1940) were randomly divided into five treatment groups (control and four test diet) with four replicates of 97 broilers in each treatment. The control (TO) group was offered feed without trace minerals, whereas other four groups were supplemented with inorganic trace minerals (ITM) 19/kg diet (T1), inorganic trace minerals 1 g/kg diet + organic trace minerals (OTM) 0.250 g/kg diet (T2), organic trace minerals 0.250 g/kg diet (T3) and organic trace minerals 0.500 g/kg diet (T4) from day-old age till the end of trial (42 days). The economic impact and performance analysis revealed better effect with the birds fed diet T2 (ITM-lg/kg diet + OTM-0.250g/kg diet) and diet T4 (OTM-0.500g/kg diet) in terms of higher economic return score than all other groups. The economic impact and performance analysis revealed that the birds fed diet containing ITM-l g/kg diet + OTM-0.250g/kg diet (T2) and diet containing OTM-O.5 g/kg diet (T4) recorded higher economic returns when compared with control as well as other diets.