Effect of optimum dietary supplementation of vitamin C on the body performance parameters of poultry and in combating heat stress

Abstract

Supplement of vitamin C in different sources may have some important in\rproduction of commercial broiler chicken to reach better growth and performance\rsupplementation of vitamin C may have some influence to combat stress to environmental\rtemperature and humidity to study the effect of different sources of vitamin C viz., Him C\r(Herbal supplementation, of vitamin C) Limcee A synthetic ascorbic acid source and Amla\rnatural source of vitamin C was taken in different treatment group on commercial broiler\rchicken, four hundred twenty days old commercial broiler chicks of Vencobb 400 strain of\rboth sexes were randomly divided into four groups (one control and three treatment). The\rexperimental group were CS1 (Fed controlled that without vitamin C supplementation) TS1\r(Fed controlled diet with Him C), TS2 (Fed control diet with Limcee) and TS3 (Fed controlled\rthat with dried Amla). The trail was conducted under field condition for forty two days. From\rthe present study it was concluded that the supplementation of dried Amla @ 185g/ton of\rfeed showed better performance in term of live weight gain compared to supplementation of\rHim C and synthetic ascorbic acid, respectively.