Dietary effect of cinnamon powder on haematology and serum biochemistry indices of cockerel chickens

Olusegun Stephen Adedeji, Blessing Abiola Oyetoro, Oluwadamilare David Ifanegan, Daphine Adekemisola Sanni

Abstract: The experiment was conducted to investigate the blood indices of cockerel chickens fed varying
inclusion levels of cinnamon powder. A total bird of 150 day old ISA Brown strain was used for the
study and was randomly distributed to five treatments of 30 birds each with three replicate of 10 birds
per replica. The dietary treatments consisted of T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5 with 0 g, 0.5 g, 1.0 g, 1.5 g, and
2.0 g supplementation of cinnamon powder in 4 litters of water. The experiment lasted for 16 weeks.
At the end of the 16th week, the birds were starved of feed overnight. Blood samples for analysis were
taken from three birds per treatment from the venipuncture of wing vein and were collected into two
different set of bijou bottles. The first set of bottles contain Ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetic acid (EDTA
anti-coagulant) while the other set was without EDTA. Blood sample were labelled according to name
and number of test/replicate and were sent to the laboratory for analysis on Red Blood Cell (RBC),
White Blood Cell (WBC), Packed Cell Volume (PCV), Lymphocytes, Heamoglobin (HB), Mean
Corpuscular Volume (MCV), Total protein (TP), Albumin (ALB), Globulin (GLO), cholesterol (CHO),
Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST), Alkaline Phosphate (ALP), Alanine aminotransferase (ALT)
and Glucose. The result showed that cinnamon supplementation affected all the blood parameters
significantly (p < 0.05). It can be concluded that chickens on T5 (2.0 g of cinnamon in water) had
an improved haematological parameters while cockerels on T5 (4.0 g of cinnamon in water) had an
enhanced serum biochemical parameters.

Keywords: cinnamon; Cockerel; haematological indices; ISA brown; serum biochemistry

Date published: 2022-06-28