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Effect of Allium ampeloprasum and flavophospholipol antibiotic on performance, some blood metabolites and small intestine morphology of broilers

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 University of Jiroft

2 Assistant Professor/University of Jiroft

Abstract

To investigate the effect of different levels of Allium ampeloprasum powder (AP) and flavophospholipol (FP) on growth performance, blood metabolites and small intestine morphology of broilers, an experiment was conducted on 200, day-old male broiler chicks (Ross 308) in a completely randomized design with 5 treatments, 4 replicates and 10 chicks per each. The treatments consisted of: corn-soybean meal as basal diet (BD), BD + 0.02% flavophospholipol, BD + 0.5% AP, BD + 075% AP and BD + 1% AP. The results showed that feed intake (FI) increased by FP treatment over all periods (P<0.01). Addition of FP, increased WG in starter phase (P<0.05). In grower and whole period the best WG and FCR was observed for FP, 1 and 0.75% AP (P<0.01) treatments. Blood glucose, triglycerides and cholesterol were decreased by AP significantly (P<0.05). Heterophil to lymphocyte ratio decreased significantly by 1% AP compared to control group (P<0.05). Villi height and villi height to crypt depth ratio increased by FP and AP supplementation (P<0.05). Based on results, 0.75 and 1% AP had positive effect on growth performance, immunity and small intestine health of broilers and with regards to restriction on the use of antibiotic in broiler ration, AP can be used to improve growth performance and immunity of broilers.

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Animal Production
Volume 19, Issue 3
November 2017
Pages 645-656
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