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POST HATCH FEEDING AND FEED ADDITIVES AS A STRATEGY TO ENHANCE GUT HEALTH OFBROILER CHICKS

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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An experiment was carried outusing three hundred and sixty (308 Ross) 1-d-old broiler chick. In the pre starter phase (0-7d) birds were randomly divided into three experimental groups 120 chicks each,with 3 replicates (40 birds/ pen) and fed diet (ME; 2950 kcal/kg, CP; 24%). as suggested by the Ross guided 2018. Dietary additives were consisted of: (i) basal diet without supplementation of additives (control); (ii) basal diet supplemented with 0.05% omega3 (iii) basal diet supplemented with 0.5% yeast. Results showed no significant differences among different groups, regarding; in live body weight, body weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion. Data ofvillus height (um), villus width (µm) crypt (um), villus height to crypt depth ratioand number of villus of broiler chicks at 7 day-oldsdid not reveal any significant difference among all studied experimental groups however, the addition of yeast lead to anumerical increase in villus height and villus height to crypt depth ratio. In addition, microbial counts showed increase numbers of Lactobacillus only in yeast feed group. Both omega-3 and yeast increased the viability of chicks compared to the control. In conclusion, early nutrition of yeast at level of 0.5% could have the beneficial effect on productive performance and related traits to avoid frequent administration of traditional antimicrobials.

DOI

10.21608/epsj.2021.135064

Keywords

broiler, gut health, performance, Feed additives, diet, Post-hatch

Authors

First Name

Enass

Last Name

Talaat

MiddleName

Abd EL-KHALEK

Affiliation

Department. Of Poultry Production Faculty of Agriculture Alexandria Uni., Alexandria, Egypt

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enastalaat77@gmail.com

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ALEXANDRIA

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40

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4

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20142

Issue Date

2020-12-01

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2020-10-04

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2021-01-01

Page Start

843

Page End

854

Print ISSN

1110-5623

Online ISSN

2090-0570

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493

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Egyptian Poultry Science Journal

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https://epsj.journals.ekb.eg/

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POST HATCH FEEDING AND FEED ADDITIVES AS A STRATEGY TO ENHANCE GUT HEALTH OFBROILER CHICKS

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22 Jan 2023