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Feed Additives in Animal Health

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Animal feed additives are used all over the world for various livestock including poultry for more reasons than one like to provide essential nutrients, increase palatability of the feed, improve their growth performance, as well as optimize the utilization of the feed. Animals with high growth performance need to maintain a high health status, and the use of proper additives is a predominant argument in such cases. With increasing industry standards and consumer awareness as well as demand for healthy food products of animal origin, there is an increased pressure on the industry for more natural and non-residual alternatives than the conventional feed additives used till recently as animal feed products. Consumer and animal welfare are primary concerns dictating the valuable alternatives of animal feed additives. Some of the alternatives seen for use as animal feed additives are probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, and herbs. Such choice of feed additives is backed by scientific and empirical research on these alternatives as herbs and their extracts (botanicals) have been found to have a wide range of activity which cannot only stimulate feed intake but also stimulate endogenous secretions or have antimicrobial, coccidiostat, or anthelmintic activity.

Ban of antibiotic use as growth promoters, cost-effectiveness, and increased awareness about harmful residual effect cause herbal feed additive to gain importance in sustainable livestock production. Animal husbandry sector gets benefited by the use of number of feed additives such as ascorbic acid, prebiotic, probiotic, and herbal extracts. Medicinal properties of the herbs to improve antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, digestibility, and immune-stimulant activity must be explored in the feeding of animals as well as safe food for human beings. Standardization of correct dosage regime of herbal feed additives for a particular function is the demand of situation so more research should be conducted in this direction.

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Pandey, A.K., Kumar, P., Saxena, M.J. (2019). Feed Additives in Animal Health. In: Gupta, R., Srivastava, A., Lall, R. (eds) Nutraceuticals in Veterinary Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04624-8_23

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