MATERIAL AND METHODS
A total of 100 unsexed day-old chicks (Cobb CP 707) were weighed and randomly allocated to four diettreatment groups,each with 4 replications of 5 birds. The dietary treatments were basal diet and gedi leaves meal(GLM), namely, basal diet ( R0 = control), 95% basal diet + 5% GLM (R1), 90% basal diet + 10% GLM (R2), and 85%basal diet + 15% GLM (R3) (Table 1). Animals were fed commercial complete based diet and the diets wereadministrated during 35 days. Feed and water were provided ad libitum throughout experiment. All diets were fed tobirds as mash. Mortality was recorded daily throughout the experimental period. At 6, 16 and 26 days of age, each birdreceived one dose of commercially new castle disease virus (NDV) vaccine.