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Alternative strategies to antibiotic growth promoters
1. A summary of an article from the online veterinary journal
Alternative Strategies to Antibiotic
Growth Promoters
- A Review
S. Adil, M. T. Banday, G. A. Bhat and M. S. Mir*
2. The online Veterinary
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3. Key words of this article
Antibiotic growth promoters
Non therapeutic alternatives
Organic acids
The health of the poultry
Additional nutrition
4. Background
Antibiotic growth promoters had been used
in animal nutrition
=> EU denied the use of them
Lots of research done of alternative
strategies
Non therapeutic alternatives could be used as
a substitute
This article is a summary of all the researches
5. Why this is done:
To improve the health and improve system of the
poultry by modulating the the indigenous bacteria
To prevent intestinal pathology
To prevent proliferation of pathogenic bacteria
The main question is:
How the quality, performance and growth of the poultry
are affected by the antibacterial effect of organic acid
7. What the organic acids
do (1):
They have lessened the bacterial fermentation in
the intestines
=> nutrients more room to be absorbed
They have increased the surface of the villus by
increasing their height in the small intestines
the absorption of the protein and energy has
increased
8. What the organic acids
do (2):
They increase the pepsine activity
=>affect the release of the hormones that have an
effect on the absorption of proteins
They have increased the amount of favorable
bacteria and decreased the amount of
unfavorable bacteria by decreasing the ph
level in gastro-intestinal track
9. Outcomes:
The organic acids would be good and
effective to use as a additional food for
poultry
The article doesn’t mention if the organic
acids has already been used in the poultry
nutrition
