The Effect of Dietary Violet Roselle Flower and Moringa Leaves Meal Supplementation on Blood Profile of Broiler Chickens

Abstract

The study was conducted to observe the effect of dietary violet roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) flower and moringa (Moringa oleifera) leaves meal supplementation on blood profile of broiler chickens. A hundred and twenty-day old male broiler chickens were fed commercial CP 511 feed with violet roselle (VRM) and moringa leaves meal (KLM) in different levels. Four treatment diets were: commercial feed without VRM or KLM supplementation (basal diet; control; T₁), basal diet with 3.0% VRM supplementation (T₂), basal diet with 3.0% KLM supplementation (T₃), and basal diet with 1.5% VRM and 1.5% KLM supplementation (T₄). Each feeding treatment was replicated 6 times, with 5 birds in each pen. The collected data were statistically analyzed using Complete Randomized Design in the One-way arrangement. Result showed that 3.0% dietary VRM supplementation or 3.0% dietary KLM supplementation had no effect on blood profile (leukocytes, erythrocytes, hematocrits, hemoglobin, and cholesterol) with average of (26.4x10³ cell/µl, 2.6x10⁶ cell/µl, 32,5%, 10,8 g/dl, and 79 mg/dl). It indicates that the blood profile was normal and the used of violet roselle flower and moringa leaves meal were still safe for broilers chickens. It can be concluded that the dietary supplementation of violet roselle flower meal or moringa leaves the meal in the diets, separately or in combination in 3.0% level had no adverse effect on blood profile of broiler chickens.