Effect of garlic, black pepper and hot red pepper on productive performances and blood lipid profile of broiler chickens
Published:December 12, 2016
Summary
Introduction Apart from an important role of medicinal herbs, aromatic plants and spices in daily human nutrition for enhancement of taste, aroma and colour of food, these additives have also been efficiently used in animal nutrition for improvement of animal health and wellbeing. With the ban of antibiotics use in animal nutrition due to the emergence of microbe resistance, alternative growt...
In certain Asian countries, medicinal herbs are being incorporated in broiler feed in small farms. The inclusion of herbal additives is not being done in industrial feed mills. Certain Indian companies have herbal products which can be mixed to the broiler feed and some farmers are satisfied with these products. Research is necessary so as to accept the herbal products instead of antibiotics.