Enhancing quality of chicken egg by adding Moringa oleifera leaves extract in drinking water

Abstract

Nowadays consumer are very concerned about food safety of chicken eggs. This condition makes researchers look for other ways to create solution on its feed to make safety feed. This study was designed to investigate Moringa oleifera leaf ethanol extract in drinking water on the performance and egg quality of laying hens. One hundred and twenty Isa Brown laying hens on twenty-two-week-old with homogenous body weight were used in this complete randomized design study with four treatments and six replications. Each replication consist of of five chickens on each cage. The laying hens were randomly divided into four treatment groups: T1: without Moringa oleifera leaves ethanol extract, T2: drinking water with 0.5% Moringa oleifera leaves ethanol extract, T3: drinking water with 1% Moringa oleifera leaves ethanol extract and T4: drinking water with 1.5% Moringa oleifera leaves ethanol extract. This study showed that supplementation of 0,5-1,5% Moringa oleifera leaves ethanol extract in drinking water increased increasead egg weight, eggshell thickness, haugh unit, albumen index, and yolk color in laying hens without increased of feed consumption, egg production, and yolk index.