Our study aimed to determine the effect of
increasing dietary levels of turmeric rhizome
extract (TRE) on performance, carcass characteristics,
antioxidant capability and meat quality
of Wenchang broiler chickens. Three hundred,
1-day-old Wenchang broiler chickens
were brooded together for 2 weeks, then randomly
allocated into four treatments with five
replicates of 15 birds each. Birds were fed a
corn-soybean basal diet supplemented with
TRE at 0, 100, 200 and 300 mg/kg for 12 weeks.
The results revealed that a TRE-supplemented
diet had no significant effect (P>0.05) on the
body weight, although birds fed a diet with TRE
at 100 and 200 mg/kg had higher average daily
weight gains and average daily feed as compared
to controls from 9 to 12 week (P