EFFECT OF GINGER AND GARLIC ON THE GROWTH PERFORMANCES OF BROILER CHICKEN
EFFECT OF GINGER AND GARLIC ON THE GROWTH PERFORMANCES OF BROILER CHICKEN CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction Poultry refers to all kinds of domestic birds kept for meat or egg purposes. They include chickens, birds, ducks, turkeys, geese, guinea fowls and pea fowl (Mifflin, 2009). Most of these birds belong to the three order of the avian class: the Califorms, Anseniforms and Columbiforms (Sherman, 2003). Majority of these species thrive well under a variety of agro climatic conditions and can be raised successfully almost anywhere provided certain minimum management and nutritional requirement are met (Robert and Olufemi 2000). They are also efficient conveyors into animal protein compared to other live stock species. While chickens, duck and quails’ are used for commercial production of eggs and meat, turkeys, guinea fowls, pea fowl are used only for meat production (Sherman, 2003). Keeping poultry for eggs, ra...