Title
Dietary Inclusion of a Mixed Powder of Medicinal Plant Leaves Enhances the Feed Efficiency and Immune Function in Broiler Chickens
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Aroche R.
Ruan Z.
Guan G.
Waititu S.
Nyachoti C.M.
Más D.
Lan S.
Hunan Agricultural University
Publisher(s)
Hindawi Limited
Abstract
The trial was designed to determine the effect of the mixed powder of leaves of Anacardium occidentale (60%), Psidium guajava (20%), and Morinda citrifolia (20%) on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, and immunoglobulin concentration in broiler chickens. A total of 80 one-day-old Ross 308 broiler chickens were randomly assigned to two dietary treatments from days 1 to 21 of age, with 8 replicates by treatments and 5 birds per replicate. Treatments consisted of a control diet (T0) and the dietary inclusion of 0.5% of mixed powder of medicinal plant leaves (T1). The inclusion of herbs decreases the feed intake (FI) and feed conversion ratio (FCR; P<0.05) in week 2 and in the period studied (1-21 days) compared with T0 but did not modify (P<0.05) the body weight (BW) and average gain (AG). Also, the mixed powder has no influence (P>0.05) on nutrient digestibility and IgA concentration; however, the IgG concentration increased by the effect of this experimental treatment. The results allow recommending the dietary inclusion of mixed powder of medicinal plant leaves as an alternative for obtaining acceptable performance in broilers.
Volume
2018
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Inmunología Ciencia veterinaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85048542424
Source
Journal of Chemistry
ISSN of the container
20909063
Source funding
Scientific Research Foundation of Hunan Provincial Education Department
Sponsor(s)
Provincial Science and Technology Department (2017NK2322 and 2016NK2103), and the Open Project Program of State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University (SKLF-KF-201416). +is study was funded by the China Scholarship Council (201708430008), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31402092), the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department (17K043), the Hunan
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