Dietary Echinacea purpurea administration enhanced egg laying performance, serum lipid profile, antioxidant status and semen quality in duck breeders during summer season

Abstract

This work investigated the outcomes of dietary administration of Echinacea purpurea (EP) powder to breeder ducks on productive and reproductive performance during summer season. Sudani ducks (320 birds) of 32‐weeks‐old (240 females and 80 males) were randomly allocated into four collections (body weight; 1850 ± 15.2 g for females and 2960.0 ± 40.5 g for males). The primary collection consumed the basal diet without supplementation and was deliberated as control. The other three collections were fed the basal diet supplemented with 2.5, 5.00 and 7.5 g EP/kg diet, correspondingly. Egg number and mass, laying rate, feed consumption and feed conversion ratio (FCR) were significantly changed by dietary EP levels. Drakes fed EP‐supplemented diets had higher ejaculate volume, sperms concentration and live sperms (%) as well as lower dead sperms (%) than the control group. Eggs laid by ducks fed diet supplemented with 2.5 g/kg had the greatest fertility and hatchability percentages, followed by those fed 5.0 g EP/kg. Ducks fed different EP diets had higher values of haemoglobin, RBCs, WBCs and lymphocytes, lower values of heterophils percentage and lower H/L ratio than the control. All serum constituents were significantly changed by dietary EP supplementation, except of total protein and Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) enzyme. Conclusively, dietary EP supplementation at 2.5 g/kg had beneficial effects on productive and reproductive performance as well as lipid profile and antioxidant status and economically valued in breeder ducks under summer conditions.

Impacts of Dietary Supplementations of Orange Peel and Tomato Pomace Extracts as Natural Sources for Ascorbic Acid on Growth Performance, Carcass Characteristics, Plasma Biochemicals and Antioxidant Status of Growing Rabbits

“…1 Price of one Kg/live body weight on selling was USD 3.19. 2 Net revenue = Price of rabbit (USD)-Total feed cost (USD). 3 Economic efficiency = Net revenue/Total feed cost (USD).…”

“…Recently, there has been growing interest in using natural feed additives to enhance animal performance and meat quality for human consumption [1][2][3][4]. Water-soluble vitamins such as vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid or simply ascorbate) are normally synthesized by the rabbit digestive flora and the dietary supplementation of 25-30 mg/rabbit/day may be advisable in cases of the digestive disorders, as after weaning [5].…”

Phytobiotics, a Natural Growth Promoter for Poultry

“…Santoso et al [57] reported that supplementation 5% addition of papaya leaf extract can improve body weight gain and carcass quality in broiler chickens, and increase egg protein content. The scientific literature contains also numerous reports indicating that phytobiotics do not significantly affect growth performance, feed conversion ratio and the survival rate of poultry but regulate the physiological functions of the organism (metabolism, activity of important enzymes, the level of minerals or blood composition) [5,58,59].…”

Effect of Yucca Schidigera Addition to Ducks Diet on Productive Characteristics and Economical Evaluation Through Summer Conditions

“…Proceeded antibiotics uses in modern poultry industry could to increment disease resistance, however preventing, restricting or decreasing their uses might induced to undesirable changes, particularly on conversion efficiency (Awad et al, 2021). Increased consumer attention with health problems, as well as craving to restrict or forestall antibiotics uses for their adverse consequence, the insiders in poultry industry are compelled for look a nature replacements proverb phytogenic feed additives so as to help the challenge of poultry diseases in their farms.…”

“…Also, using YS could be diminish NH3 concentration in farms that reflect improving the poultry productivity (Ayasan et al, 2005). Ducks are kept under intense farming in greatly occupied herds to achieve huge intensities of economic value as it is one of the tremendously successful and rapid generating business that provides great protein (Farghly et al, 2017;Awad et al, 2021). Thus, the chief purposes of the contemporary investigation were to assess the impact of dietary dried YS addition on ducks productivity, hatching measurements and blood parameters at summer time.…”