Utilization of golden apple snail egg as feed additive in laying hen

Naturally bioresources play an important role as bio-additive sources in animal production. The eggs of golden apple snails could be a source of carotenoid, particularly astaxanthin. The goal of this experiment was to assess the impact of the eggs of golden apple snails on the growth performance of laying chickens. A feeding trial comprising three treatments of ration that were incorporated with various levels of golden apple-snail eggs was fed to the laying chickens. After two weeks of the experiment, the growth performance of the bird was assessed. The incorporation of the golden apple snail eggs in the ration affected the feed intake of laying chicken but not growth and feed conversion.