“…Probiotics most often belong to the genus Lactobacillus, Bacillus, Lactococcus ( Park et al, 2016 ), Enterococcus, Bifidobacterium , and Saccharomyces ( Adhikari and Kim, 2017 ). Many studies have confirmed the health-promoting effect of probiotics on the organism of birds in the aspect of the digestive tract ( Biswas et al, 2019a ), the immune system ( Zhang et al, 2016 ; Fathi et al, 2018 ; Alaqil et al, 2020 ), intestinal microbiota ( Khan et al, 2020 ) or by preventing bacterial infections ( Smialek et al, 2018 ; Ahmed et al, 2019 ; Tabashsum et al, 2020 ), viral ( Al-Khalidi et al, 2020 ), and protozoan ( Erdoğmuş et al, 2019 ). The immunomodulatory properties of probiotics include changes in the levels of interleukins (IL-2, IL-10) and immunoglobulins (IgG, IgA) ( Rajput et al, 2013 ), as well as an increase in the weight of the immune system organs (spleen, thymus, bursa fabricii), as demonstrated by the use of Bacillus subtilis in ducks ( Guo et al, 2016 ).…”