Editors: Mohamed E. Abd El-Hack, Mahmoud Alagawany

Antibiotic Alternatives in Poultry and Fish Feed.

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Library License: US $236
ISBN: 978-981-5049-02-2 (Print)
ISBN: 978-981-5049-01-5 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2022
DOI: 10.2174/97898150490151220101

Introduction

This handbook focuses on the use of antibiotic alternatives in poultry and fish feed. Chapters in the book cover a range of natural ingredients in feed and the impacts of these natural feed additives on growth, production, reproduction and health status of poultry and fish. All chapters give a holistic approach to how organic feed additives (herbal plants and their extracts, probiotics, peptides, etc.) can positively impact animal health and production.

Key Features:

  • - presents 13 chapters contributed by 38 experts and scientists of animal, poultry and fish nutrition, poultry and fish physiology, toxicology, pharmacology, and pathology
  • - highlights the significance of herbal plants and their extracts and derivatives, cold-pressed and essential oils and fruits by-products
  • - covers the effects of special ingredients such as immunomodulators, antimicrobial peptides, and probiotics
  • - provides the reader an updated perspective on the use of additives in poultry and fish industry as growth promoters and their role in developing bacterial resistance to antibiotics
  • - covers the main poultry species, egg-laying hens, quails, geese, ducks, turkey, and commercial fish
  • - includes references for advanced readers

This book will be useful for poultry and fish keepers and researchers in animal nutrition, pharmacology, and veterinary sciences. Professionals involved in the poultry and fish feed industry will also find the information useful for product development.

Audience

Professionals involved in the poultry and aquaculture industry, veterinarians, zoologists

Preface

For a long time ago, poultry keepers used to add trace levels of antibiotics to poultry feed to act as growth-promoting agents. This practice caused harmful impacts on poultry products’ consumers because of antibiotic resistance. This led the European Union to ban the use of antibiotics in poultry feed. So, this book focuses on the use of antibiotic alternatives in poultry and fish feed. Also, it deals with the different impacts of these natural feed additives in poultry and fish nutrition on growth, production, reproduction and health status. This book contains 13 chapters contributed by 38 experts and scientists of animal, poultry and fish nutrition, poultry and fish physiology, toxicology, pharmacology, and pathology, which highlights the significance of herbal plants and their extracts and derivatives, cold-pressed and essential oils, fruits by-products, immunomodulators, antimicrobial peptides, and probiotics with their role in poultry and fish industry instead of antibiotic growth promoters. This book provides detailed information about using antibiotics in the poultry and fish industry as growth promoters and developing bacterial resistance to antibiotics. All chapters give a holistic approach to how organic feed additives (herbal plants and their extracts, probiotics, peptides, etc .) can positively impact animal health and production. Also, the book chapters cover the main poultry species, including broilers, laying hens, quails, geese, ducks, turkey, and fish. This book will be useful for poultry and fish keepers and research in nutrition, pharmacology, and veterinary sciences.



Mohamed E. Abd El Hack
Department of Poultry
Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University
Zagazig
Egypt

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Mahmoud Alagawany
Department of Poultry
Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University
Zagazig
Egypt