Influence of probiotic and medicinal plants incorporated in animal feed formulations

Abstract

Antibiotics used in animal feed to prevent various microbial diseases leads to antibioticresistance. Such resistances will not only occur in pathogenic bacterial species but can also betransferred to humans during the consumption of animal products. Long term usages of antibiotics leadto suppress the natural immunity. Replacing of commercial antibiotics with probiotics, edible medicinalplant material could benefit the poultry animals health and consumers without any negative effects.Sporolactobacillus laveolacticus MTCC 7167, a spore forming bacteria were screened for its probioticcharacteristics in sustaining at acidic and bile environments. Three medicinal plants such as Tinosporacordifolia, Abutilon indicum, Holoptelea integrifolia were selected and screened for their antimicrobialproperty to be used as a value added natural material incorporated in animal feed. The aim of this studywas to develop an effective antimicrobial and probiotic animal feed with immune-modulatory potentialusing the agricultural wastes.