author(s)
Premavalli K, Sangilimadan K, Balasubramanyam D and Omprakash AV

abstract
The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation of turmeric powder (Curcuma longa Linn.) on production performance of Nandanam broiler-3 birds. A total of 320 day old chicks were randomly divided into four treatment groups with four replicates of twenty chicks each. The dietary treatments consisted of control - 0 (T1), 0.5 (T2), 0.75 (T3) and 1% (T4) turmeric powder added to the basal diet. There were no significant (P>0.05) differences observed in mean body weight (g), feed conversion ratio and livability between different treatment groups. However, the birds fed with basal diet supplemented with turmeric powder exhibited numerically higher body weight, better feed conversion ratio and livability from 0 - 8 weeks than control. It is concluded that dietary supplementation of turmeric powder at 0.5, 0.75 and 1% level did not have significant influence on the production performance of Nandanam broiler-3 birds.