Foreign research experience of the effect of probiotic agent on the intestinal microbiome of poultry

Abstract

The intensive development of industrial animal husbandry and poultry farming, along with the ban on the use of antibiotics for non-medicinal purposes, requires a revision of stimulating and therapeutic and preventive approaches aimed at increasing productivity, protecting against infections and improving other production parameters, such as feed digestibility and improving the efficiency of digestion, stimulating growth and development, the quality of meat, milk, eggs. In this regard, probiotic, prebiotic and synbiotic drugs and feed additives have become widespread. Funds based on antagonistic bacteria and representatives of symbiotic microflora are actively being introduced into poultry technology, a wide domestic research experience reveals their prospects. Used mainly to maintain the balance of the intestinal microbiota, they turn out to be an effective method of combating opportunistic pathogens.At the same time, in the countries of developed industrial poultry farming, products based on probiotic cultures have not been widely used, and a number of sources are skeptical about the ability of probiotics to influence the intestinal microbiome of poultry. This article discusses various modern studies that carry the opinions of foreign authors about the effectiveness of probiotics and their effect on the intestinal microbiome of poultry.