Volume: 56 Issue: 4
Year: 2025, Page: 606-610, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2025.56.4.606-610
Received: Sept. 3, 2025 Accepted: Oct. 22, 2025 Published: Dec. 31, 2025
This study assessed the influence of dietary supplementation of fenugreek seed powder (FSP) on carcass characteristics and meat quality in broiler chicken. A total of 160 day-old commercial broiler chicks (Vencobb-430Y) were randomly allotted to five dietary treatment groups with each group comprising four replicates of 8 birds each, ensuring a completely randomised design (CRD): T1 (control), T2 (2.5 g FSP/kg basal diet), T3 (5 g FSP/kg basal diet), T4 (7.5 g FSP/kg basal diet) and T5 (10 g FSP/kg basal diet). Data collected were analysed by one-way ANOVA using SPSS (version 24.0). The statistical analysis revealed that supplementation of fenugreek seed powder (FSP) did not have a significant effect on carcass characteristics such as pre-slaughter weight, carcass weight, cut-up part weight, giblet weight and abdominal fat, as well as on the yield of immune organs and meat quality parameters including pH, waterholding capacity, cooking loss and drip loss. These results indicate that the inclusion of fenugreek seed powder (FSP) at these levels in the basal diet did not have a significant effect on the above mentioned parameters.
Keywords: Fenugreek seed powder, broiler chicken, carcass characteristics, meat quality
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Amal, K.S., Shamna, T.P., Chacko, B., Vineetha, P.G., Cyriac, S. and Syamala, K. 2025. Effect of dietary
supplementation of fenugreek seed powder on carcass characteristics, immune organs yield and meat quality in broiler
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