Water supplementation of Moringa oleifera as a substitute for antibiotics on performance and blood parameters of broiler chickens

Abstract

There is a serious public health concern of the use of antibiotics sub-therapeutically and/or as growth promoter in poultry feed and water. Therefore, there is an urgent need for alternatives. Moringa oleifera is a phytobiotic, which has been reported to possess antimicrobial and immuno-modulatory properties. This study aimed to investigate the effects of aqueous M. oleifera leaf extract (MOLE) supplementation on growth performance and hematological indices of broiler chickens. The 36 day-old broiler chicks (Cobb 500) were randomly divided into three dietary groups (group A, B and C) having 12 birds in each. The group A was considered as negative control which had received the basal diet and fresh drinking water. The group B was fed with basal diet and antibiotics (Ciprofloxacin) plus Vitamin B-complex mixed drinking water(Positive control). The group C was fed with basal diet and drinking water supplemented with 1% MOLE. Body weight, feed intake and feed conversion ratios of the birds were recorded on weekly basis. On day 35th of the feeding trail, blood samples from five birds per replicate were used for the study of hematological indices. Birds under Group C attained intermediate body weight (1892 g) and best FCR (1.48) those were comparable with that of Group B but better (p<0.05) than those of Group A. There was a trend of decrease (p>0.05) internal organs weight in Group C compared to other groups. However, zero mortality rate and similar hematological indices were observed in the birds across the treatments. Here, the results suggested that, the aqueous MOLE can be included in the drinking water of broiler chicken for reduced feed intake and improved feed conversion efficiency and it can be considered as an alternate to synthetic antibiotics as growth promoter to fight the emergence of antibiotic resistance phenomena in poultry industry.J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 16(2): 266-270, August 2018

Use of Moringa oleifera in chickens and its effect on Productive and Economic parameters

“…There were no significant differences on FCR (TABLE V), results that differ from those of Paul et al [16], who included 1% of the aqueous extract of M. oleifera in the drinking water of Cobb 500 B for 5 wk and whose results showed a lower FCR when compared to the control group. On the other hand, the present results were similar to what was found in the study by Mesa et al [14], who included 0.10, 15 and 20% of M. oleifera forage meal in the feed of White Leghorn L33 laying hens from 19 to 26 wk of age, and did not show any difference in FCR.…”

Potential Applications of Moringa oleifera in Poultry Health and Production as Alternative to Antibiotics: A Review

“…The birds which were fed diets with 750 g/100 kg of Moringa leaf meal had the greatest feed-conversion ratio (FCR), which fell as the amount of Moringa leaf meal in the diet decreased. Paul et al [ 75 ] concluded that the aqueous extract of the M. oleifera leaves reduced feed intake and enhanced the FCR in comparison with antibiotics in broiler chickens. According to El-Tazi et al [ 61 ], using 5% Moringa meal in the broiler diet boosted the feed intake and feed-conversion ratio considerably.…”

Efficacy of Dietary Moringa Oleifera Leaves Supplementation on Productivity, Carcass Traits, Hemato-Biochemical Parameters, Antioxidants Status and Immune Response in Heat Stressed Growing Rabbits.

“…Generally, the MO leaves has anti-tumor and antinflammatory properties (Paul et al, 2018). Concerning the observed improvement in immunity of rabbits treated with MODLP, similar results were reported on growing rabbits fed MO leaf meal under moderate heat stress (El-Gindy et al, 2017), broilers fed MO leaves (Olugbemi et al, 2010) and mice orally treated with MO leaves methanolic extract (Sudha et al, 2010).…”

“…Therefore, MO leaves have ability to affect oxidative damage in animals by increasing anti-oxidant enzymes activity, decreasing lipid peroxidation, free radicals generation, and suppression of ROS formation (Osman et al, 2012), consequently improving meat quality (Giannenas et al, 2010). The MO leaves has properties as anti-tumor, antinflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-ulcerous, antihyperlipidaemic and cholesterol lowering, anti-diabetic, anti-cancereous (Paul et al, 2018), anti-fungal and anti-bacterial (Bukar et al, 2010), which include 4-("-L-rhamnopyranosyloxy) benzyl isothiocyanate, Niazimicin, Pterygospermin, Benzyl isothiocyanate, 4-("-Lrhamnopyranosyloxy) and Benzyl glucosinolate (El-Kholy et al, 2018a).…”

“…Leaves of MO were found to effect on the haematological parameters and lipid profiles in animal blood (Serem et al, 2017). Additionally, rich nutrient profile of MO give this plant as a potential growth promoter and immunomodulatory effects (Paul et al, 2018). There are many attempts to use MO meal as a dietary inclusion in rabbit diets.…”