BACKGROUND The use of medicinal plants is an option for livestock farmers who are not allowed to use allopathic drugs under certified organic programs or cannot afford to use allopathic drugs for minor health problems of livestock. METHODS In 2003 we conducted semi-structured interviews with 60 participants obtained using a purposive sample. Medicinal plants are used to treat a range of condi...

this experiment was conducted in order to evaluate the effect of different levels of malva sylvestris extract on performance, carcass characteristics and some immune and blood parameters of broiler chickens with 16 experimental units with 4 treatment, 4 replicate and 11 broilers in each replicate  in completely randomized design for 42 days. the dietary treatments consisted of basal diet (contr...