Effect of nucleotides supplementation on broiler performance

An experiment was conducted on 120 day old broiler chicks (Cobb strain) reared on deep litter system at Instructional Poultry Farm of G.B. Pant Uni. of Agri. & Tech., Pantnagar during 2014–15 to study the effect of dietary nucleotides supplementation on the growth performance of broiler chicks for six weeks of age. The chicks were randomly divided into four treatment groups (T₁, T₂, T₃ and

T₄) of 30 chicks, each group having three replications of ten broiler chicks each. The control group (T₁) was fed diet without nucleotides and groups (T₂, T₃ and T₄) were supplemented with nucleotides in basal feed @ 0.01, 0.03 and 0.05 per cent, respectively. The results of the experiment on growth performance of broiler chicks indicated that dietary inclusion of nucleotides increased the body weight gain, reduced feed intake, improved feed conversion ratio (FCR) and performance index significantly (P<0.05), with best performance during all the periods was noted in group supplemented with 0.03 per cent of nucleotides. On the basis of results of present study it can be concluded that, dietary nucleotides supplementation at 0.03 per cent level may be recommended to improve growth performance of broiler chickens.