Effect of supplementation of betaine hydrochloride on growth performance in broilers

Abstract

An experiment was conducted on 120 day-old Cobb broiler chicks to study the effect of betaine hydrochloride on growth performance. The chicks were randomly divided into four dietary treatments (T1 to T4) each comprising three replicates of ten birds for 42 days. T1 was fed with control diet based on BIS (2007) [2] standards, while treatments T2, T3, and T4 were supplemented with 0.1, 0.2 and 0.25% betaine hydrochloride, respectively. The studies revealed that supplementation of betaine hydrochloride exhibited significantly higher body weights and improved feed conversion ratio compared to the control group. However, no significant differences were observed in feed intake and survivability across all groups at the end of the experiment. It was concluded that supplementing betaine hydrochloride improved growth performance in broilers.