Effect of pepper mint and thymus vulagaris extracts with and without flaxseed on eggs quality of layhng hens.

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Faramarz Keshavarz Moetamedi ¹ , Reza Taherkhani ² , Timur TanhaGhezli ³

1 - Department of Animal Nutrition, Payam Noor University, Pardis University, Pardis, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of Animal Nutrition, Payam Noor University, Pardis University, Pardis, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Department of Animal Nutrition, Payam Noor University, Pardis University, Pardis, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2017-01-22 Accepted : 2017-05-10 Published : 2017-05-22

Keywords: egg quality, laying hen, egg, garden thyme, pepper mint,

Abstract :

In order to survey the effects of extracts of garden thyme and pepper mint and their mixed extracts on yield quality 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 yolk weight. Using each of medicinal plant extracts by- self had no significant effect on above parameters (p<0.01). Using extracts of garden thyme caused significant effects on Hough unit, cholesterol and density of yolk but had on significant effect on thickness of egg shell. Although mixed application of pepper mint and garden thyme caused increasing of shell thickness but this results were not significant (p<0.01).