Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXII, Issue 2
Written by Tuti WIDJASTUTI, Iwan SETIAWAN, Abun HASBUNA, Indrawati YUDAASMARA
Noni juice fruit is a natural antibiotic from herbal plants, and has an anthraquinone active as an antibacterial. The research was held to find out the effect of Noni juice fruit in the drink water on the performance and hematologic indicator on Sentul Chicken. The experimental used 120 day old chick Sentul chicken, with a Completely Randomized Design (CRD), with six treatments and four replications. The ration treatments were P0: control ration without Noni juice fruit, P1: Ration + 1 ml Noni juice fruit, P2: Ration + 2 ml, P3: Ration + 3 ml, P4: Ration + 4 ml and P5: Ration + 5 ml. Variables observed were water consumption, feed consumption, body weight, feed efficiency, and hematologic indicator of Sentul chicken. Statistical analysis showed that the treatment significantly affect (P<0.05) on body weight, feed conversion and hematologic indicator, but not significant effect on feed consumption, and water consumption. It can be concluded that treatment Noni juice fruit 3 ml/litre drinking water produced good performance of Sentul chickens.
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