Response to meat and bone meal, phytase and antibiotics on gut permeability, nutrient digestibility and caecal microflora in broiler chickens during a necrotic enteritis challenge

Title
Response to meat and bone meal, phytase and antibiotics on gut permeability, nutrient digestibility and caecal microflora in broiler chickens during a necrotic enteritis challenge
Publication Date
2018-06-29
Author(s)
Zanu, H K
Nguyen, T T H
Morgan, N K
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9663-2365
Email: nmorga20@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:nmorga20
Kheravii, S K
Wu, Shubiao
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1790-6015
Email: swu3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:swu3
Swick, R A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3376-1677
Email: rswick@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:rswick
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/30992
Abstract
Necrotic enteritis (NE) is an enterotoxaemia of poultry with a significant economic effect on poultry production. Currently, antibiotics effectively prevent NE, but there is a global push for reduced reliance on the use of in-feed antibiotics (Castanon, 2007). Preventative treatments focus on the predisposing factors that instigate the disease. One such factor is meat and bone meal (MBM). The ingestible proteins in MBM (Kim, et al., 2012) cause production of toxic metabolites via proliferation of putrefying bacteria, such as highly proteolytic C. perfringens (Sharma, et al., 2017). Supplementing broiler diets with a 'superdose' of phytase has previously been shown to improve performance in NE challenged birds. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of phytase in NE challenged birds fed MBM based diets, on gut permeability, nutrient digestibility and caecal microflora
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Citation
Animal Production Science, 58(8), p. xlv-xlv
ISSN
1836-5787
1836-0939
Start page
xlv
End page
xlv

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