The effects of a combination of garlic, oyster mushroom and propolis extract in comparison to antibiotic on growth performance, some blood parameters and nutrients digestibility of male broilers

Abstract

A study was conducted to evaluate the combined effects of garlic, oyster mushroom and propolis extract on the growth performance, organ weights, antibody response to Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV), serum lipid concentrations and nutrient digestibility of male broilers. A total of 192 day old chicks (Ross 308) were randomly assigned to 3 treatments with 4 replications (16 birds per replication). Experimental treatments were a maize- soybean based diet as control, control diet supplemented with a combination of garlic (30 g/kg), oyster mushroom (2 g/kg) and propolis extract (0.2 g/kg) known as GMP, and control diet supplemented with Virginamycin (0.25 g/kg) as antibiotic. The inclusion of GMP decreased (p < 0.05) live body weight, average daily gain and feed intake but had no effect on feed conversion ratio when compared to control diet. GMP and antibiotic had no effects on relative weight of organs. Antibiotic decreased (p < 0.05) the relative weight of small intestine segments. GMP decreased total cholesterol but did not affect other serum lipids when compared to control group. Antibiotic increased (p < 0.05) cholesterol concentration in serum. The inclusion of GMP to the diet improved antibody response to NDV when compared to control and antibiotic diets. In conclusion, the results showed that GMP decreased growth performance but improved immunity of broiler chickens. More studies should be performed to confirm the action modes of such combinations

The Influence of Propolis as Supplement Diet on Broiler Meat Growth Performance, Carcass Body Weight, Chemical Composition and Lipid Oxidation Stability

“…Also, (Ghisalberti, 1979) reported the propolis has improved the broiler feed intake, this is due because the propolis content high amount of the fl avonoids. The present fi ndings show that the feed conversion ratio (FCR) in the experimental groups was improved compared to the control group, this results inagreement with (Botsoglou et al, 2004;Seven et al, 2008;Pourali et al, 2010;Tekeli et al, 2011;Daneshmand et al, 2012) who was found that the propolis increased the (FCR) on broiler chickens. The reason which led propolis to the improve the growth performance on the broiler because, the propolis has improve the digestive utilization of iron and the regeneration effi ciency of haemoglobin, especially during recovery from an anaemic syndrome, on other hand propolis has a positive eff ect on phosphocalcic metabolism and maintain an appropriate level of magnesium metabolism and improvement in the digestive utilization of these minerals (Haro et al, 2000).…”

Dietary inclusion of mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) stem waste on growth performance and immune responses in growing layer hens

“…stated that 5% F. velutipes mycelium did not improve feed intake in broilers, which was similar to the results of the present study with respect to feed intake. Another study by Daneshmand et al . found that the inclusion of oyster mushroom, garlic and propolis extract decreased the final body weight and BWG of birds.…”

Organic Egg Production, Egg Quality, Calcium Utilization, and Digestibility in Laying Hens Fed with Mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) Stem Waste

“…Hong-Gu et al (2014) found that fermented F. velutipes mycelium had no significant effects on egg production in laying hens. In addition, Daneshmand et al (2012) reported that dietary inclusion of oyster mushroom, garlic, and propolis extract had no effects on broiler bird's body weight gain. In contrast by the author Hong-Gu et al 2014found that F. velutipes mycelium could improve egg size, egg mass, and FCR.…”

“…In addition, feed additives originated from plants can stimulate the digestive functions and therefore could be used in poultry rations as feed additives (Mahanta et al, 2017). In contrast with Daneshmand et al (2012) reported that inclusion of oyster mushroom and antibiotic treatments could not affect protein and organic matter retention in broiler. These differences might be associated with mushroom type, mushroom parts, bird's strain, and mushroom inclusion levels in the experimental diets compared with the current study.…”