Lee, J.-W.; Kim, D.-H.; Kim, Y.-B.; Jeong, S.-B.; Oh, S.-T.; Cho, S.-Y.; Lee, K.-W. Dietary Encapsulated Essential Oils Improve Production Performance of Coccidiosis-Vaccine-Challenged Broiler Chickens. Animals2020, 10, 481.
Lee, J.-W.; Kim, D.-H.; Kim, Y.-B.; Jeong, S.-B.; Oh, S.-T.; Cho, S.-Y.; Lee, K.-W. Dietary Encapsulated Essential Oils Improve Production Performance of Coccidiosis-Vaccine-Challenged Broiler Chickens. Animals 2020, 10, 481.
Lee, J.-W.; Kim, D.-H.; Kim, Y.-B.; Jeong, S.-B.; Oh, S.-T.; Cho, S.-Y.; Lee, K.-W. Dietary Encapsulated Essential Oils Improve Production Performance of Coccidiosis-Vaccine-Challenged Broiler Chickens. Animals2020, 10, 481.
Lee, J.-W.; Kim, D.-H.; Kim, Y.-B.; Jeong, S.-B.; Oh, S.-T.; Cho, S.-Y.; Lee, K.-W. Dietary Encapsulated Essential Oils Improve Production Performance of Coccidiosis-Vaccine-Challenged Broiler Chickens. Animals 2020, 10, 481.
Abstract
The present study was conducted to evaluate encapsulated essential oils as an alternative anticoccidial in coccidiosis vaccine challenged broiler chickens. A total of 600 day-old male broiler chicks were provided with no-added corn-soybean meal-based control diet or diets that contained either salinomycin or EO at 60 and 120 mg per kg of diet. On day 21, half of the control groups were orally challenged with a coccidiosis vaccine at 25 times higher than the recommended vaccine dose. During 22 to 28 days (i.e., one-week post coccidiosis vaccine challenge), the challenged chickens had decrease (P < 0.05) in body weight gain and feed intake but increase in feed conversion ratio compared with the non-challenged, naïve control chickens. However, dietary EO significantly counteracted (P < 0.05) coccidiosis vaccine-induced depression in body weight gain and feed intake. Increasing dietary EO linearly decreased (P < 0.05) the concentrations of the volatile fatty acids. Dietary SAL and EO affected gut morphology in chickens at 20 days posthatch. Increasing dietary EO linearly (P = 0.073) increased serum catalase activity. Collectively, our study shows that dietary EO increased coccidiosis vaccine-induced growth depression and altered gut physiology in broiler chickens.
Keywords
encapsulated essential oils; coccidiosis vaccine; growth performance; broiler chickens; gut health
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy
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