Received: 17-04-2023 / Accepted: 29-08-2023
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of dietary nanocurcumin on growth performance, carcass yield, meat quality and blood physiological parameters of Ross 308 chicken. A total of 120 one-day-old Ross 308 chickens were randomly allocated into two treatments: (1) control group fed basal diet and nanocurcumin group feda basal diet supplemented with 200 mg nanocurcumin per kg. Each group was replicated three times. The results showed that supplemntation with nanocurcumin in the diet did not affect the survival rate, daily gain, body weight, daily intake, carcass yield and meat quality (P >0.05). The feed conversion ratio in nanocurcumin group (1.32) was lower than in the control group (1.36) (P <0.05). Proportions of abdominal fat, the weight of the liver, heart and spleen were not different between control and nanocurcumin groups (P >0.05). Dripp loss, pH and meat tenderness did not significantly different, except b* values of breast (P <0.05). Hematological parameters in nanocurcumin group were higher than those in control group (P <0.05), except lymphocytes proportion.