Research Article
Effect of Vegetable Waste on Growth Performance and
Hematology of Broiler Chicks
Muhammad Shahid Nisar ,
1
Anjum Zahra,
2
Muhammad Fahad Iqbal,
3
Muhammad Amjad Bashir,
1
Riffat Yasin,
4
Khizar Samiullah,
5
Irum Aziz,
6
Sidra Saeed,
5
Abdulrahman Alasmari,
7
Fahmy G. Elsaid,
8,9
Ali A. Shati,
8
Mohammed A. Al-Kahtani,
8
Farwa Naseem,
10
Maryam Fatima,
11
and Faraz Ahmed
12
1
Department of Plant Protection, Ghazi University D. G. Khan, Pakistan
2
DHQ teaching hospital Dera Ghazi Khan Punjab, Pakistan
3
Avicenna medical college Lahore Punjab, Pakistan
4
Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, MNSUA, Multan, Pakistan
5
Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Ghazi University D. G. Khan, Pakistan
6
Department of Zoology, Ghazi University D. G. Khan, Pakistan
7
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
8
Biology Department, Science College, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
9
Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
10
WMO RHD (Rural Health Dispensary), Badduke, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
11
WMO at RHD kmahan, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
12
Basic Health Unit Faizabad tehsil Depalpur District Okara Punjab, Pakistan
Correspondence should be addressed to Muhammad Shahid Nisar; mnisar@gudgk.edu.pk
Received 26 May 2022; Accepted 16 September 2022; Published 10 October 2022
Academic Editor: Dr Muhammad Hamid
Copyright © 2022 Muhammad Shahid Nisar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work
is properly cited.
Vegetable waste (spinach, potato, and cauliflower) is a rich and natural source of nutrients, potentially good for supplying
minerals, essential amino acids, and antioxidants to the birds. Relatively, its cost very low, easily to accessible, easily process &
pose little risk of illness. The aim of present study was to evaluate the effect of vegetable waste (VW) as feed supplement on
growth performance and hematology of broiler chicks. For this purpose, a total of 200 (4 days old) vaccinated chicks were
acquired from a commercial hatchery Multan which was acclimated for three weeks (21 days) on basal starter feed after that
25-day-old chicks with uniform body weight were allocated according to a CRD (completely randomized design) into four
dietary treatments with three replicates of each contained 15 chicks in 12 pens. In dietary treatments, chicks were feed with
basal feed (BF) and supplemented feed with vegetable waste (VW) of spinach, potato, and cauliflower. For this purpose, the
dietary treatments included control treatment (T
1
) (100% BF+0% VW) and other dietary treatments (T
2
) (75% BF+25% VW),
(T
3
) (50% BF+50% VW), and (T
4
) (25% BF+75% VW). The body weight, feed intake, food conversion ratio (FCR), and
mortality were checked on weekly and daily basis. For hematology analysis, after the 1st experimental week (25-day-old chicks)
and the last 5th experimental week (56-day-old chicks), the samples of blood were gathered from the wing’s veins of two birds
from each treatment in random way. At the end of five weeks (35 days), birds with uniform average body weight were selected
per treatment with three replicates (2 bird/replicate) and then were manually slaughtered according to the Halal method to
analyze the weight of internal body organs of broilers by physical and statistical analysis (ANOVA). There was no significant
effect (P >0:05) on feed intake and FCR among all the dietary treatments. But in average, body weight and BWG were higher
in treatment (T
2
)(P <0:01) than all other dietary treatments (T
3
) and (T
4
) and control treatment (T
1
). The blood constituents
in this study showed that broilers in control treatment (T
1
) and other dietary treatments (T
2
), (T
3
), and (T
4
) fed on different
doses were significantly (P <0:01) different from each other. The week 5 (W
5
) shows higher values of blood constituents
Hindawi
BioMed Research International
Volume 2022, Article ID 4855584, 8 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4855584