Effects of medicinal plants, Alisma canaliculatum, Laminaria japonica and Cornus officinalis, treated with probiotics on growth performance, meat composition and internal organ development of broiler chicken

Chul Ju Yang,Farhana Sharmin,Gwi Man Kim,Md Sazedul Karim Sarker

doi:10.3329/ajmbr.v2i4.31017

Abstract

A trial was conducted with 175 day old Ross broiler chicks to evaluate the effectiveness of Alisma canaliculatum (Water plantain or Theksa), Laminaria japonica (Sea tangle or Dashima) and Cornus officinalis (Cornelain cherry or Sansuyu) medicinal plants treated with probiotics in replacing antibiotic. Three medicinal plants were prepared in dry and flour form with treatment of probiotics. The groups were control (basal diet), antibiotic (basal diet + 0.05% OTC, oxytetracycline), Water plantain treated with Probiotics (WPP) 0.5%, Sea tangle treated with Probiotics (STP) 0.5% and Cornelian cherry treated with Probiotics (CCP) 0.5% in basal diet. The broilers were distributed in a completely randomized design having 5 replications with 7 chicks per replication in wire cage. The data were analyzed by SAS package program. Addition of three medicinal plants in broiler diets didnt show negative effect on growth and feed conversion efficiency in broilers. Significantly highest protein percentage in broiler meat was found in groups fed the three medicinal plants treated with probiotics (WPP, STP and CCP) compared with other groups (P<0.05). Crude ash also increased significantly by the three medicinal plants addition compared to control especially in breast meat (P<0.05). Addition of probiotics treated with medicinal plants had similar beneficial effects on most of the observed parameters to those found in antibiotic-fed groups, so it implies that these three medicinal plants can be the possible alternatives to antibiotic for broiler production.Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. December 2016, 2(4): 696-702

Highlights

Antibiotic usage has facilitated the efficient production of poultry, allowing the consumer to purchase, at a reasonable cost, high quality meat and eggs
Despite many benefits brought by antibiotic usage, consumer perceptions are dominant that edible poultry tissues are contaminated with harmful concentrations of drug residues (Donoghue, 2003)
The trend of mortality revealed indirectly the potentiality of the medicinal plants treated with probiotics in the diet, in other sense, the immunomodulatory effect of the medicinal plant, as observed by Meng et al, (2006)

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Antibiotic usage has facilitated the efficient production of poultry, allowing the consumer to purchase, at a reasonable cost, high quality meat and eggs. Antibiotic usage has enhanced the health and well-being of poultry by reducing the incidence of disease. Despite many benefits brought by antibiotic usage, consumer perceptions are dominant that edible poultry tissues are contaminated with harmful concentrations of drug residues (Donoghue, 2003). Resurreccion and Galvez (1999) reported that 77% of consumers responding considered animal drug residues in meats to be an extreme health concern and the remaining 23% responding thought that drug residues were not a problem.

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