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Effect of Probiotic on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Clinical Health Parameters of Broilers Reared under Heat Stress in Upper Egypt

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Basic Veterinary Sciences

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of probiotic (PROBAC plusĀ®) supplementation on growth performance, carcass characteristics, and clinical health parameters of broilers reared under high temperature (32-35oc) from age of 22 to 42 day. A total of 120 broiler chicks were divided into 4 groups at age of one day. The first group was control (fed with basal diet), second was broilers reared at high temperature (fed with basal diet), third was broilers reared at high temperature (fed basal diet + probiotic) and fourth was probiotic group (control + probiotic). Growth performance was determined weekly. At day 42, 10 birds from each group were randomly selected and slaughtered to determine the carcass characteristics and to collect blood samples. Serum blood biochemicals and thyroid hormones were estimated. The obtained results showed that heat stress have reduced the performance, carcass traits and showed alterations in clinical biochemical parameters. Addition of probiotic to diets of birds reared with or without stress enhanced growth performance, carcass traits and improved clinical blood parameters. The results suggest that probiotic can be used to counteract the adverse effects of heat stress in addition to its efficacy as growth promoter.

DOI

10.21608/svu.2019.11221.1012

Keywords

probiotic, heat stress, Growth performance, blood biochemicals, Broiler Chicken

Authors

First Name

Eslam

Last Name

Ahmed

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Affiliation

Department of Animal Behavior and Management, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

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eslam_kh@vet.svu.edu.eg

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Qena

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0000-0002-6850-7815

First Name

Mootaz

Last Name

Abdelrahman

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Affiliation

Department of Animal Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary medicine, el minia University, Egypt

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mootazabdelrahman@yahoo.com

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First Name

Khaled

Last Name

Gahreeb

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Affiliation

Animal behavior and management, Faculty of veterinary medicine, South Valley University

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ghareebkm@yahoo.com

City

Qena

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Volume

2

Article Issue

2

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5561

Issue Date

2019-12-01

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2019-05-07

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2019-12-01

Page Start

27

Page End

44

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2535-1826

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2535-1877

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3

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Research article

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712

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SVU-International Journal of Veterinary Sciences

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https://svu.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023