The use of antibiotics in food-producing animals has significantly increased animal health by lowering mortality and the incidence of diseases. Antibiotics also have largely contributed to increase productivity of farms. However, antibiotic usage in general and relevance of non-therapeutic antibiotics (growth promoters) in feed need to be reevaluated especially because bacterial pathogens of hu...

32 Abstract Antibiotic growth promoters have been extensively used in the poultry feed to improve weight gain, feed efficiency, lessen the number of harmful bacteria, enhance immunity etc. However, they have role in development of the resistance in the pathogenic bacteria and impose negative impact on the consumers due to residues. Medicinal plants are the best replacement option of ABGP. Garli...

background: with the removal of antibiotic as growth promoters from poultry diets, it is of interest to investigate potential alternatives to maintain good growth performance and good intestinal microbial populations in these birds. numerous additives such as probiotics, prebiotics, organic acids, enzymes and herbal extracts used extensively in poultry feed. objective: the study was conducted t...

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