ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2020
Potential Effects of Acidifier and Amylase as Substitutes for Antibiotic on the Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestion and Gut Microbiota in Yellow-Feathered Broilers.
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- Dietary addition of compound organic acids improves the growth performance, carcass trait, and body health of broilers.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Effects of Mixed Organic Acids and Essential Oils in Drinking Water on Growth Performance, Intestinal Digestive Capacity, and Immune Status in Broiler Chickens.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Organic Iodine Improves the Growth Performance and Gut Health of Fujian Yellow Rabbits.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Growth performance of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with amylase and protease enzymes individually or combined.Open veterinary journal · 2023Article
- The effect of acidifier supplementation on egg production performance and intestinal histology of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica).Veterinary medicine and science · 2023Article
- Castration alters the cecal microbiota and inhibits growth in Holstein cattle.Journal of animal science · 2022Article
- Bio-Fermented Malic Acid Facilitates the Production of High-Quality Chicken via Enhancing Muscle Antioxidant Capacity of Broilers.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Dietary supplementation with acidifiers improves the growth performance, meat quality and intestinal health of broiler chickens.Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui) · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of acidifier (benzoic acid, BA), amylase (AL) and their combination as substitutes for antibiotics on growth performance, antioxidation, nutrient digestion and gut microbiota of yellow-feathered broilers. A total of 1440 twenty-one-day-old broilers were randomly allocated to six treatments. Broilers in the control group (CON) were fed a basal diet, whereas birds in the other five groups were fed the basal diet supplemented with antibiotic (zinc bacitracin, AT, 40 mg/kg), BA (2000 mg/kg), low level AL (AL-L, 300 mg/kg), high level AL (AL-H, 500 mg/kg) and the combination of AL-H and BA (BA+AL-H). The experimental animals were killed at the end of the trial (21 day-63 day) then blood samples were collected from two birds per pen. Bird weight, feed intake and survival rate were recorded on pen basis. Growth performance was not significantly influenced by AT, BA, AL-L, AL-H or BA+AL-H. Plasma uric acid (UA) was decreased from CON by all treatments; the activity of AKP in plasma was also lowered by AT, BA, AL-H and BA+AL-H. Plasma activity of LDH was reduced by BA. In the jejunal mucosa, Na
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