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An eight week study was conducted to evaluate the effect of oral administration of ethanol extract of Lagenaria breviflora (LB) fruit as an additive on the performance, carcass and sensory characteristics of broiler chicken meat avoid the problems of accumulation of antibiotic residue in poultry products and resistance of pathogenic organisms to antibiotics. Two hundred (200) day- old broiler chickens were randomly divided into five groups of forty birds each and assigned to five treatments in a Completely Randomized Design experiment consisting of four replicates per treatment. The treatments were Neoceryl antibiotics (T1), distil water/untreated (T2), 1ml (T3), 2 ml (T4) and 3ml (T5) ethanol extract of LB. Data were collected on production performance, nutrient digestibility, carcass and meat sensory characteristics. Data were analyzed by one way analysis of variance at 5 % probability level. Results showed that average daily gain of the birds that were given 1ml (39.07g), 2ml (41.76g) and 3ml (41.32g) LB were higher (P<0.05) than that of the group that was not treated (36.56 g) while the value obtained in the group given Neoceryl (41.82g) was similar to those given LB. Dry matter and crude protein digestibility were higher (P<0.05) in birds that were given LB than in those that were not medicated (T2) while those that were treated with Neoceryl had similar values. Feed intake, feed cost/kg weight gain, mortality and FCR were lower (P<0.05) and better in birds that were given LB extract than those that were not treated. Primal cuts, organ weights and sensory characteristics were not affected by LB. In conclusion, 2ml and 3ml ethanol extract of LB can be used as an additive in place of commercial antibiotic in broiler chicken production in the interest of public health.
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