EFFECTS OF GINGER (Zingiber officinale) EXTRACT SUPPLEMENTATION ON THE GROWTH OF NATIVE CHICKEN (Gallus gallus domesticus

Poultry contributes significantly to the country's economic development. Ginger contains a variety of bioactive phenolics, including nonvolatile pungent compounds like gingerols, paradols, shagols, and zingerones. A total of forty-eight (48) one-month native chickens were randomly allocated to four (4) treatments with three (3) replicates and every replicate had four (4) chickens. Treatment 0 (T0) or the control were given pure water as a control diet, Treatment 1 (T1) was given 400ml of water with 10ml of ginger extract, treatment 2 (T2) was provided with 20ml of ginger extract, and treatment 3 (T3) was given a 30ml of ginger extract. The supplementation of ginger extract as water intake has no significant effect on the feed consumption of chicken. However, cumulative weight gain from the grower stage to finisher stage has the same result shows that Treatment 2 (T2) with 20ml of ginger has the highest average number. In this experiment birds given 20ml of ginger extract gained the highest percentage of water intake during grower stage. In Treatment 3 (T3) with 30ml of ginger extract, has the highest percentage during finisher stage. It is concluded that Ginger root extract serves as good supplementation for poultry chicken affecting the growth performance.