Herbs and Botanicals as Feed Additives in Monogastric Animals
By C. Wenk. 2003
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Animal feed additives are used worldwide for many different reasons. Some help to cover the needs of essential nutrients and others to increase growth performance, feed intake and therefore optimize feed utilization. The health status of animals with a high growth performance is a predominant argument in the choice of feed additives. The use of feed additives is more and more questioned by the consumers. Therefore, the feed industry is highly interested in valuable alternatives which could be accepted by the consumers. Probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes and highly available minerals as well as herbs can be seen as alternatives. Herbs, spices and their extracts (botanicals) have a wide range of activities. They can stimulate feed intake and endogenous secretions or have antimicrobial, coccidiostatic or anthelmintic activity. A major field of application of herbs is the protection of animals and their products against oxidation.
Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Biochemistry, Plant Science
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- Turmeric (Curcuma longa) Root Powder and Mannanoligosaccharides as Alternatives to Antibiotics in Broiler Chicken Diets (2003, background): “, 2000) and various herbs (Dobretsberger et al., 1997; Bourne, 1998; Wenk and Messikommer, 1999; Wenk, 2002) in poultry diets have been recently discussed.”
- Influence of essential oil supplementation and diets with different nutrient densities on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood characteristics, meat quality and fecal noxious gas content in grower–finisher pigs (2010, background): “, 2004) and immune function (Wenk, 2003) in livestock, which may explain the increased performance observed in the current study.”
- Phytobiotics in poultry and swine nutrition – a review (2017, background): “It has been mostly reported that addition of herbal products to diets has growth promoting effect on poultry and swine (Wenk 2003; Kim et al. 2010; Mohammadi Gheisar et al. 2015a,b).”
- Effects of essential oils supplementation on growth performance, IgG concentration and fecal noxious gas concentration of weaned pigs (2005, background): “Beneficial effects of essential oils on farm animals may arise from activation of feed intake and secretion of digestive secretions, immune stimulation, anti-bacterial, coccidiostatic, antiviral and antioxidant properties (Wenk, 2003).”