Effect of supplementation of various levels of inulin on meat and serum cholesterol in raja ii broilers

Abstract

The present study was conducted at Department of Poultry Science, Veterinary College, Hebbal, Bangalore during April, 2016. The effect of feeding various levels of inulin on the meat and serum cholesterol in Raja II broiler chickens was studied. An experiment of 42 days duration was conducted with a flock of 225 day old straight run Raja II broiler chicks were selected randomly and out of this 45 chicks were assigned randomly to each treatments: control (without inulin), control + 0.25 percent inulin (T2), control + 0.5 percent inulin (T3), control + 0.75 percent inulin (T4) and control +1 percent inulin (T5). At the end of experiment the supplementation of various levels of inulin in broiler diets did not show any significant difference in meat cholesterol which ranges from 48.43±0.36, 48.54±0.19, 48.02±0.15, 48.11±0.15 and 48.50±0.31 in T1 to T5, respectively. The Serum cholesterol, TG, LDL, VLDL, HDL also not show any significant difference among the different treatment. The results indicated that inulin have a no effect on meat and serum cholesterol.