Research Article
Haematological Studies on Broiler Chickens Fed with Different Levels of Artemia Urmiana
Aliasghar Tehrani1, Javad Javanbakht2*, Saeed Askari3, Mehdy Aghamohammad Hassan4, Amirali Solati5, Sayad Golami6 and Hamid Akbari71Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Urmia, Urmia, Iran
2Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3GraduateSchool of Veterinary Medicine, University of Urmia, Urmia, Iran
4Department of Clinical Science, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
5Department of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Saveh branch, Saveh, Iran
6Graduate, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
7Department of Clinical Science, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Urmia, Urmia, Iran
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- Dr. Javad Javanbakht
Department of Pathology
University of Tehran, Azadi Avenue, Iran
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E-mail: Javadjavanbakht@ut.ac.ir
Received date: April 26, 2012; Accepted date: June 05, 2012; Published date: June 07, 2012
Citation: Tehrani A, Javanbakht J, Askari S, Hassan MA, Solati A, et al. (2012) Haematological Studies on Broiler Chickens Fed with Different Levels of Artemia urmiana. J Biotechnol Biomater 2:138. doi:10.4172/2155-952X.1000138
Copyright: © 2012 Tehrani A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The present study was carried out on broilers to study the effect of Artemia Urmiana on hematological parameters for a period of 56 days (8 weeks). In this study 190 one-day old broiler chicks from Ross 308 strain were divided into five equal groups: L1, L2, L3, L4 (Test groups) and control group. The control diet contained 5% fish meal, and the other four groups contained 2.5%, 5%, 7.5%, and 10% brine shrimp. At the end of the 7th day, blood samples were collected from all the experimental groups and analyzed for the following parameters: RBC, WBC, Hb, PCV, MCV, MCH and MCHC. The blood sample collection was repeated at the end of 14th, 21th, 28th, 35th, 42th, 49th, 56th days respectively, and the blood parameters determined as well. The results demonstrated that in Artemia-fed groups the PCV, MCV, MCH, Lymphocytes and TP were more than control group, whereas Leukocytes and Heterophils were lesser than control group. However, RBC, Hb and MCHC were approximately equal to control group.
