The Impacts of Different Levels of Cinnamon Powder (Cinnamomum veru) on Performance, Blood Metabolites and Inner Organs Weight of Broilers

The purpose of this research was to study the addition of cinnamon powder in diet, on productive performance, blood metabolites and inner organs weight of broiler chickens. Therefore, an experiment was carried out with two hundred and twenty five male broiler chicks Ross 308 in form of a completely randomized design with 5 treatments and three replicates during 42 days. Treatments were involving: 1- control group (basal diet without any additive), 2- basal diet plus 0.1 % cinnamon powder, 3- basal diet plus 0.2 % cinnamon powder, 4- basal diet plus 0.3 % cinnamon powder, 5- basal diet plus 0.5 % cinnamon powder. The results of this research showed that cinnamon powder has no significant effect on the blood cholesterol, triglyceride and caecum levels plus percentage of pancreas weight (P>0.05). Whereas, addition of cinnamon powder induced significant effects on the glucose, LDL, AST, ALT, TBA and some of the inner organs weight percent such as liver and abdominal fat (P