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Comparative effectiveness of organic additives and antibiotics in enhancing meat quality and production performance of broiler chickens

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Animal Production
Biotechnology

Abstract

This study aims to compare the effectiveness of commercially available Biofactor (BF) water additives and antibiotics (AB) such as Florfenicol, Neomycin sulfate (30.76%), Tylosin, and Enrofloxacin compared to the control group. During the Experimental Periods, the present study investigates a significant increase in the BF group in total Live Body weight (LBW) with 2057.00 gm/bird compared with 1896.28 and 1924.28 gm/bird in control and AB groups, respectively. Furthermore, there is a significant increase in carcass weight (CW) in the BF group with 1608.29 gm/bird compared with 1422.67 and 1526.29 gm/bird in the control and AB groups, respectively. Moreover, the feed intake and feed conversion ratio (FCR) was the best in BF group compared with the control and AB groups. Also, A higher effective intramuscular fat (IMF) content was observed in BF group meat than in the control and AB groups. The lightness (L*) value was significantly highest in BF meat than in control and AB meat. The present research indicates that adding BF additives to water is an alternative to using antibiotics to enhance the productive performance and meat quality in -Arbor Acres-broiler chicks.

DOI

10.21608/ajar.2023.316067

Keywords

broiler, BioFactor, antibiotics, intramuscular fat, and meat quality

Authors

First Name

Elhusseny

Last Name

Bossila

MiddleName

Abdelawal

Affiliation

Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Al-Azhar, Cairo.Egypt.

Email

bossila@azhar.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0003-2320-0294

Volume

48

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

43347

Issue Date

2023-06-01

Receive Date

2023-09-05

Publish Date

2023-06-01

Page Start

177

Page End

186

Print ISSN

1110-1563

Online ISSN

2786-0051

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https://ajar.journals.ekb.eg/article_316067.html

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316,067

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Original Article

Type Code

929

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Al-Azhar Journal of Agricultural Research

Publication Link

https://ajar.journals.ekb.eg/

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Comparative effectiveness of organic additives and antibiotics in enhancing meat quality and production performance of broiler chickens

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Article

Created At

24 Dec 2024