STUDY THE EFFECT OF GROUNDWATER ON PRODUCTIVE AND IMMUNOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE FOR BROILER CHICKEN

Abstract

This study was carried out at Poultry Breeding Farm, Poultry Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University. This experiment was designed to evaluate the productive and immune performance of broiler chickens under the influence of water contamination with heavy metals and multiple microbes. Groundwater was used in four different places (A. Saeed, Shalakan, El-Wqaf, and Bahadah) to study this contamination and the results showed that there are analytical differences among the four places, also study the effect of this on the productive and immunological performance of broiler chickens. The temperatures (the upper and lower) surrounding birds were recorded during the trial period is 25 days, it was 32.8 and 28 degrees Celsius, respectively. The main results obtained were as follows: - The birds who consumed the groundwater in the Bahadah region recorded significantly heavier body weights (1920 g) compared to the other of the other regions, while there were no significant differences between the areas of A.Saeed and El-Wqaf, where they were recorded (1770 and 1690 g respectively) at the age of four weeks. - There were no significant differences between groups that consumed water in the four different regions in the experiment with regard to food consumed and the food conversion factor. - It was noticed that there were significant differences between the four areas that used groundwater in relation to the weight of the carcass, and the area of Bahadah was successful in the carcass weight with a noticeable difference. The El-Wqaf recorded the following (1332.4, 1271.8, and 1265.3 g) with a percentage (71.5, 70.9, 70.8 %). - Significant differences were observed with respect to the weight increase per week between the four regions, and the superiority was noticeable in the Bahadah region, where the weight was recorded in the first, second, and third week, respectively (272.3, 791.8, and 1250 g) compared to the other of the regions.