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This experiment was carried out to determine the effect of feeding Muntingia calabura leaf extract on the growth performance, carcass characteristics, immune response and meat quality of broiler chickens. 500 1-day old broiler chicks (Cobb 500) were randomly distributed into five treatments of five replicates consisting of ten birds each in a compl...
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... of Muntingia calabura leaf extract on the carcass characteristics of broiler chicken (Table 4) revealed that slaughter weight, carcass weight and dressing percentage which took the form of 1971.2 -2806.3 grams, 1421.5 to 2306.5 grams and 72.11 -82.19 percent were higher among birds fed diet 4 (0.9 mL Muntingia calabura leaf extract) and diet 5 (1.2 mL Muntingia calabura leaf extract), intermediate among birds given diet 3 (0.3 mL Muntingia calabura leaf extract) and diet 2 (0.3 mL Muntingia calabura leaf extract), lowest in diet 1 (without Muntingia calabura leaf extract) (P<0.05). ...