Jia Huang, Fangshen Guo, Waseem Abbas, Zeqiong Hu, Lin Liu, Jianing Qiao, Ruichen Bi, Tiantian Xu, Kaichen Zhang, Jinyu Huang, Yuming Guo, Zhong Wang
To develop effective antibiotics alternatives is getting more and more important to poultry healthy production. The study investigated the effects of a microencapsulated essential oils and organic acids preparation (EOA) on growth performance, slaughter performance, nutrient digestibility and intestinal microenvironment of broilers. A total of 624 1-day-old male Arbor Acres broilers were randomly divided into 6 groups including the control group (T1) fed with basal diet, the antibiotic group (T2) supplemented with basal diet with 45 mg/kg bacitracin methylene disalicylate (BMD), and 4 inclusion levels of EOA-treated groups (T3, T4, T5, T6 groups) chickens given basal diet with 200, 400, 600, and 800 mg EOA/kg of diet, respectively...
March 16, 2024: Poultry Science