EFFECT OF PALM OIL ON HAEMATOLOGICAL AND SERUM LIPID PROFILE OF BROILER BIRDS FED NOODLE BASED DIETS

Abstract

An eight-week feeding trial using 240 5-day-old Hubbard flex broiler chicks was conducted to assess the effect of feeding graded levels of indomie noodle waste (INW) diets containing palm oil on heamatological parameters and serum lipid profile of birds. Birds were allotted five treatments containing three replicates having sixteen birds per replicate in a completely randomized design. Five diets were compounded containing indomie noodle waste at 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% replacing maize in the diets with palm oil deceasing as INW inclusion increased in the diets. Feed and water provided ad libitum. At the end of the experiment, blood samples were collected from severed jugular veins of two birds per replicate and subjected to laboratory analysis for Total Cholesterol (TC), High Density Lipoproteins (HDL), Low density lipoproteins (LDL) and Triglyceride (TG). Results showed that increase in INW in the diets of broilers tend to increase total cholesterol and triglyceride, favors high density lipoproteins, and lowered values for low density lipoproteins though there was no statistical difference (P>0.05) across the treatments. Broiler diets can contain INW up to 50% as to control
elevations in values of TC and TG.