Effect of synbiotic Biomin IMBO on performance, serum lipid and humoral immune response in broiler chicks

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1 Assistant professor, Department of Animal Science, Shahr-e-Qods branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant professor, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Arak University, Arak, Iran

3 Assistant professor, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Science and Engineering, University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UTCAN), University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

Abstract

Eexperiment was conducted to investigate the effects of a synbiotic containing Enterococcus faecium and inulin on performance, serum lipid and humoral immune response against sheep red blood cell (SRBC) with using 400 one-day-old male broiler chicks. Broiler chicks were randomly divided into 16 experimental units (25 birds per unit) and fed corn-soybean meal-based diets. Four units were considered for each treatment and 0, 0.5, 1 and 1.5 g/kg synbiotic supplement were added to diet for each treatment. The results showed that body weight gain and feed conversion ratio during the whole experimental period were higher in treatments 1 (2662g and 1.72, respectively) and 1.5 (2596 g and 1.74, respectively) g/kg synbiotic compared to control (P<0.05). Also, on 28 and 42 d, serum cholesterol levels were lower in treatments 1 (156.8 and 107.6 mg/dL, respectively) and 1.5 (146.3 and 106.5 mg/dL, respectively) g/kg synbiotic compared to control (P<0.05). On 41 d, the antibody titer against SRBC was higher in treatments 2 (8.09) and 1.5 (8.69) g/kg synbiotic in comparison with control (P<0.05). In general, the results of this experiment showed that using of 1 and 1.5 g/kg synbiotic in broiler diets could improve growth performance, immune responses and reduce serum of blood cholestrol.

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Animal Production Research
Volume 2, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
December 2013
Pages 59-66

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