Galimzhan K Duskaev, Tatyana A Klimova

Animal Husbandry and Fodder Production. 2022. Vol. 105, no 3. Р. 137-152.

 doi: 10.33284/2658-3135-105-3-137

Review article

Phytochemicals in poultry nutrition: prospects for use (review)

 Galimzhan K Duskaev1, Tatyana A Klimova2

1,2Federal Research Centre of Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Orenburg, Russia

1 gduskaev@mаil.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9015-8367

2 klimovat91@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4298-1663

Abstract. First, good nutrition and keeping is necessary to maintain the health, growth and productivity of poultry. In addition, to improve growth rates and resistance to various bacterial infections[1], antimicrobials (antibiotics) are often used. However, the uncontrolled use of antibiotics and their long-term accumulation in the body of birds has led to the emergence of resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics and, thus, the impossibility to prevent infections of a bacterial nature. The ban of antibiotics has an economic impact on poultry industry. the search for an alternative to previously used antibiotics is an urgent problem in poultry nutrition. In this regard, in modern animal husbandry, attention was paid to the so-called biologically active substances that form plants - phytobiotics. Phytobiotics have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antimicrobial, and antiparasitic properties. At present, there is a huge number of plants that form the so-called plant extracts. A more detailed study of phytobiotics is needed, namely the mechanisms of their action, taking into account the physiological characteristics of poultry. This review considers examples and possibilities of using plant extracts in modern poultry farming as an alternative to antimicrobials.

Keywords: phytobiotics, plant extracts, poultry farming, bird feeding, feed antibiotics, resistance

Acknowledgments: the work was performed in accordance to the plan of research works for 2021-2023 FSBRI FRC BST RAS (No. 0761-2019-0005).

For citation: Duskaev GK, Klimova TA. Phytochemicals in poultry nutrition: prospects for use (review). Animal Husbandry and Fodder Production. 2022;105(3):137-152. https://doi.org/10.33284/2658-3135-105-3-137

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Galimzhan K Duskaev, Dr. Sci. (Biology), Leading Researcher of the Department of Feeding Farm Animals and Feed Technology named after Leushin SG, Federal Research Center for Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 29 9 Yanvarya St., Orenburg, 460000, tel. : +7(3532)30-81-70.

Tatyana A Klimova, Head of the Laboratory of Microbiology of the Testing Center of the Central Collective Use Center, Federal Research Center for Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 29 9 Yanvarya St., Orenburg, 460000, tel.: +79878494166.

The article was submitted 02.09.2022; approved after reviewing 09.09.2022; accepted for publication 12.09.2022.

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