Effect of White Sorghum Supplemented with Graded Levels of Synthetic Methionine on Haematological Indices and Serum Biochemicals of Broiler Chickens
Investigation was carried out to elucidate the effect of white sorghum supplemented with synthetic methionine diets on haematological indices and serum biochemistry of broiler chickens. Three hundred (300) day old Anak chick were used in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) for 56 days. The birds were randomly assigned to 5 dietary treatments consisting of 60 birds/treatment and replicated thrice with 20 birds/replicate. Treatments 1-5 were supplemented with synthetic methionine at the levels of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5% for T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 respectively. Results obtained revealed that incorporating synthetic methionine into white sorghum soya-bean based diets did not significantly (P>0.05) affect the haematological indices, however, serum biochemical was significantly (P<0.05) affected in almost all parameters measured except in Urea. From the result also, the diet did not distort the haematological indices and serum biochemical since they fall within standard values. It was concluded that synthetic methionine supplementation up to 0.5% has no deleterious effect but beneficial effect on haematology and serum biochemical.
Keywords: White sorghum, methionine haematology, serum indices, Broiler chickens.
