RESPONSE OF BROILER CHICKS FED ON DIETS CONTAINING GRADED LEVELS OF PIGEON PEA (CAJANUS CAJAN) SEEDS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ESSENTIAL CARAWAY OIL

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of feeding broiler chicks on dietscontaining graded levels of raw pigeon pea seeds (PPS ) supplemented by essential caraway oil (ECO){200 ml/100kg). One hundred and twenty, 7-day old broiler chicks (Ross 308) were divided into fivegroups (A,B,C,D and E). Each group was subdivided into four replicates with six chicks per each in acompletely randomized design (CRD). Five iso-caloric, iso-nitrogenous diets were formulated. Diet A wasas acontrol (no pigeon pea, no caraway oil). Diets B, C, D and E contained 5, 10, 15 and 20% of raw pigeonpea seeds supplemented with 200ml/100kg caraway oil. Results obtained showed that the overall data forperformance of chicks fed diet contained 20% pigeon pea seed supplemented with caraway oil recordedsignificant (p≤0.05) improvement over the control group in body weight, body weight gain and feedintake; however, the dietary had no effect on feed conversion ratio and mortality. It is concluded thataddition of 200 ml/100kg caraway oil to raw pigeon pea seed is eliminate or reduce the anti-nutritionalfactors in pigeon pea seed, so, indicating that the caraway oil can be as anatural inhibitor for anti-naturalfactors.