Recent advances in animal feed additives such as metabolic modifiers, antimicrobial agents, probiotics, enzymes and highly available minerals - review.

By C. Wenk. 2000

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Use of essential oils in poultry nutrition: A new approach - (2014, background): “Many EOs stimulate growth of beneficial microbes and limit number of pathogenic bacteria in poultry (Wenk, 2000).”
Effect of dietary supplementation of multi-strain probiotic on broiler growth performance. (2005, result): “Wenk (2000) reported that probiotics supplementation had more pronounced effect in young growing animals which substantiates the findings of our study during starter phase.”
Fruit and Vegetable Co-Products as Functional Feed Ingredients in Farm Animal Nutrition for Improved Product Quality (2015, background): “Finally, feed additives can also affect other major determinants of food quality for the modern consumer such as shelf life, sensory characteristics (appearance and eating quality), nutritional value, and health enhancers [14–16].”
Exogenous Enzymes as Zootechnical Additives in Animal Feed: A Review (2021, background): “Their use not only represents a nutritional improvement; it also allows the use of raw materials to be expanded [24].”
Influence of essential oil components on growth performance and the functional activity of the pancreas and small intestine in broiler chickens (2004, background): “Thus, a great effort has been attempted to find alternatives to antibiotics as growth promoters in animal industry (Wenk, 2000).”