Effect of Pepper mint and Thymus vulgaris extracts with and without flaxseed on performance of laying hens.

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Faramarz  Keshavarz moetamedi ¹ (Animal Nutrition Department, Payame Noor University, Pardis, Tehran, Iran)
Reza  Taherkhani ² (Animal Nutrition Department, Payame Noor University, Pardis, Tehran, Iran)
Timur  Tanhaghezeli ³ (Animal Nutrition Department, Payame Noor University, Pardis, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2016-04-08 Accepted : 2016-08-02 Published : 2017-08-23

Keywords: Performance, laying hen, egg, garden thyme, pepper mint, and egg weight,

Abstract :

In order to survey the effects of extracts of garden thyme and pepper mint and their mixed extracts on yield and quantity characters of egg, an experiment were done in 2016 in the region of varamin on 80 old laying lineage hen lineage of lohmen light( LSL) in age of 60 to 68 week as a completely randomized block design with four treatment and five replication. Treatments were consists of control, extracts of pepper mint (0.5 percent), garden thyme (0.5 percent), pepper mint + garden thyme (0.25 % +0. 25%). All extracts of medicinal were used in the form of water dilution.Results of this experiment showed that using simultaneous of pepper mint extracts and garden thyme had significant effect on increasing egg weight, and final percent of yield, egg mass, and decreased feed conversion ratio. Using each of medicinal plant extracts by- self had no significant effect on above parameters (p<0.01).