Dietary Supplementation of Andrographis Paniculata Nees Meal on Performance and Serum Cholesterol of Laying Hen

Abstract

Andrographis paniculata (sambiloto) is well known as medicinal plant and use as supplement in the poultry ration. The objective of this research was to evalu-ate the effect sambiloto meal as feed additive in the diet on performance and serum cholesterol in laying hen. Thirty six of laying hens were used in this experiment. The basal diet contained 16 % crude protein and 2850 kkal/kg metabolizable energy. Completely randomized design was used in this experiment with four treatments and three replications (3birds/replication). The treatment were basal diet as control or basal diet + 0.3 g, 0.6 g, 0.9 g sambiloto meal/ kg live weight of laying hen, respec-tively. The parameters observed were feed consumption, hen day production, egg weight, feed conversion, mortality, triglyceride, HDL, LDL, and total cholesterol in serum. The results showed that the diet with 0.6 g sambiloto meal/kg live weight of laying hen significant (P<0.05) increased of feed consumtion and hen day produc-tion but was not influence on egg weight and feed conversion ratio. The sambiloto meal significantly (P<0.05) reduced total serum cholesterol and LDL on level 0.9 g sambiloto meal/ kg live weight of laying hen.