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Nutritional impacts of dietary oregano and Enviva essential oils on the performance, gut microbiota and blood biochemicals of growing ducks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2019

K. Abouelezz Open the ORCID record for K. Abouelezz [Opens in a new window] ,
M. Abou-Hadied ,
J. Yuan ,
A. A. Elokil ,
G. Wang ,
S. Wang ,
J. Wang  and
G. Bian
K. Abouelezz
Affiliation:
Guangdong Haid Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511400, China Department of Poultry Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut 71526, Egypt
M. Abou-Hadied
Affiliation:
Guangdong Haid Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511400, China Aquaculture Division, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Kayet-bey, Al-Anfoushy, Alexandria 21556, Egypt
J. Yuan*
Affiliation:
Guangdong Haid Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511400, China
A. A. Elokil
Affiliation:
Animal Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University, Moshtohor 13736, Egypt
G. Wang
Affiliation:
Guangdong Haid Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511400, China
S. Wang
Affiliation:
Guangdong Haid Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511400, China
J. Wang
Affiliation:
Guangdong Haid Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511400, China
G. Bian
Affiliation:
Guangdong Haid Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511400, China Key Laboratory of Animal Vaccine Development, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 51642, China
*
†E-mail: yuanjf@haid.com.cn
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Abstract

Nowadays, there is much legislation in the world devoted to restrict the use of synthetic antibiotics in the poultry industry, which could reduce performance rate and production profits. Various phyto-biotic growth promoters have been proposed to serve as antibiotic alternatives with emphasis on plant extracts and essential oils. This study was conducted to assess the impacts of using the oregano essential oil (OEO) (comprised of 5% thymol and 65% carvacrol) and Enviva essential oil (EEO) (4.5% cinnamaldehyde and 13.5% thymol) as phytobiotic feed additives (PFA) on growth performance, cecal microbiota and serum biochemicals of growing ducks. In total, 800 11-day-old ducklings, housed in 20 floor pens, were allotted randomly into five dietary treatments: (i) A basal diet (BD) (control), (ii.) BD+50 mg EEO/kg, (iii.) BD+100 mg EEO/kg, (iv.) BD+150 mg OEO/kg and (v.) BD+300 mg OEO/kg diet. The growth performance traits were studied between 11 and 42 days of age. At the experiment end, 40 ducks were slaughtered (eight/ treatment) and cecal digesta and blood samples were collected to estimate the cecal bacterial populations and serum blood biochemicals. The results indicated that the tested levels of OEO and EEO did not display any significant effect (P>0.05) on the duck’s final BW, BW gain, growth rate, feed intake, feed conversion ratio or survivability rate. Besides, the different levels of EEO and OEO decreased the cecal populations of Coliforms (P<0.01), total aerobes (P<0.01) and lactose-negative Enterobacteria (P<0.05) in comparison with those of the control group. Finally, the tested EEO and OEO levels did not show any significant effect on the serum variables; in terms of total protein, albumin, globulin, total cholesterol, triglycerides, alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase. In conclusion, the antimicrobial effect of the OEO and EEO against the cecal microbiota has been proven, while they did not display significant effects on the growth performance or blood variables of growing ducks.

Keywords

phytobioticsfeed additivesintestinal bacteriawaterfowlplant extracts
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Research Article
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animal , Volume 13 , Issue 10 , October 2019 , pp. 2216 - 2222
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© The Animal Consortium 2019 

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