Abstract
Approaches in Poultry, Dairy & Veterinary Sciences Effect of Hops (Humulus Lupulus) Supplementation on Growth Performance of Broiler Chickens Fasina YO* and Akinola OO Department of Animal Sciences, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA *Corresponding author: Fasina YO, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Department of Animal Sciences, Greensboro, NC 27411 USA Submission: October 25, 2017; Published: November 13, 2017 DOI: 10.31031/APDV.2017.01.000518 ISSN : 2576-9162Volume1 Issue4
Highlights
The movement towards prohibiting the use of antibiotics in animal feed has become stronger in recent years due to the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacterial strains
Treatment 4 (HH) consisted of chicks fed corn-soybean meal (SBM) basal into which hops pellets were added at 2.0 % level
An experiment was conducted to determine if dietary supplementation of hops at 1 or 2% level of the diet will adversely affect body weight, body weight gain, and feed conversion ratio (FCR) of broiler chickens
Summary
The movement towards prohibiting the use of antibiotics in animal feed has become stronger in recent years due to the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacterial strains. Ongoing efforts to replace antibiotics with alternative biogenics such as direct-fed microbials, yeast-based products, organic acids, essential oils, antimicrobial peptides, acidifiers, and plant extracts in poultry diets have met limited success because, none of these alternatives is able to solely replace antibiotics [5,6,7]. This warrants continuing research efforts to identify novel effective alternatives, and perhaps formulate superior combination(s) of these products. Tillman et al [11] observed that administration of lupulone at 125mg L-1 significantly decreased the C. perfringens subgroup 16S rRNA gene Cluster I (which contains several pathogenic species) in the midgut and cecum of broiler chickens challenged with C. perfringens
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