Journal of Veterinary Research

Journal of Veterinary Research

Acomparison of the effects of commercial prebiotic (safmannan®, biomos ® and fermacto®) on performance, egg quality and antibody titer of Avian Influenza and Newcastle disease in laying hens

Authors
Mohammad Shahir
Maryam Sharifi
Omid Afsarian
Seyed Saeed Mosavi
Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan, Zanjan-Iran
10.22059/jvr.2014.35017
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Effects of different sources of prebiotic on performance and immune
response in laying hens were evaluated in this study. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this experiment
was to compare the effects of commercial prebiotics on performance, egg quality and
antibody titer against Newcastle disease (ND) and Avian Influenza (AI) in laying hens.
METHODS:The experiment was performed for 11 weeks (from 33 to 44 weeks of age) on 240
laying hens (the LSL strain), in a completely randomized design with 4 treatments, and 5
replicate for each treatment and 12 birds for each replicate. Treatments were: 1) control; 2)
control +Safmannan®; 3) control +Bio-Mos® and 4) control +Fermacto®. RESULTS: The
results showed that feed intake, feed conversion ratio and egg production percentage were not
affected by different sources of prebiotic. However, egg weight and egg mass were
significantly increased (p<0.05) by adding prebiotic, in comparison with control diet. Egg
specific gravity and shell thickness were increased (p<0.05) by prebiotic addition. The results
of experiment showed that antibody titers against AI and ND were significantly increased
(p<0.05) by prebiotics compared with control group. CONCLUSIONS:The results showed that
the effects of different sources of prebiotic on performance and immune response of laying
hen are similar. However, inclusion of prebiotic in the diet results in improvement of the
performance and antibody titer against Influenza and Newcastle.
 
Keywords
Antibody titer
egg quality
Laying Hen
performance
Prebiotics