Effect of direct-fed microbial addition in guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) diets on performance and health responses

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologyen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.crpMaize
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryGhana
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GH
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3382/ps/pey066en
cg.identifier.iitathemePLANT PRODUCTION & HEALTH
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0032-5791en
cg.issue6en
cg.journalPoultry Scienceen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT HEALTHen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT PRODUCTIONen
cg.volume97en
dc.contributor.authorSarfo, G.K.en
dc.contributor.authorLarbi, Asamoahen
dc.contributor.authorHamidu, J.A.en
dc.contributor.authorDonkoh, A.en
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-01T09:07:52Zen
dc.date.available2018-06-01T09:07:52Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/92991
dc.titleEffect of direct-fed microbial addition in guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) diets on performance and health responsesen
dcterms.abstractThe present study was conducted to investigate the effect of intermittent use of direct-fed microbial addition (DFM-“RE3®”) on growth performance and health status of indigenous guinea fowls in northern Ghana. One-hundred and eighty day-old guinea keets were randomly assigned to 4 direct-fed microbial (DFM) treatments that included: control, daily, 3 consecutive days per wk (3CDW), and 7 days repeated every other wk (7DREOW) at 1.5 ml/L through water from day 1 to 56 days. Feed intake, body weight gain, and blood hematological and serum biochemical properties were recorded. The treatments had no effects (P > 0.05) on the hematological or serum biochemical properties recorded. Birds on DFM treatments appeared to consume less feed (range: 1,584 to 1,824 g/d) compared to the control (1,870 g/d/head). Birds on DFM treatments daily and 3CDW gained more (P < 0.05) weight (334 to 394 g/d) compared to the control (306.1 g/head) with keets on daily DFM supplementation recording the lowest (P < 0.05) feed conversion ratio. The total blood protein, globulin, lipids, albumin concentrations, and cholesterol concentrations were not affected (P > 0.05) by DFM supplementation. Supplementing birds with 1.5 mL of RE3®/liter of water daily can improve body weight. Further research on immune competence from the spleen, thymus, and bursa fibrosis for evidence of increased immune competence in probiotic administered birds is recommended.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2018-03-15
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSarfo, G.K., Larbi, A., Hamidu, J.A. & Donkoh, A. (2018). Effect of direct-fed microbial addition in guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) diets on performance and health responses. Poultry Science, 97(6), 1909-1913.en
dcterms.extentp. 1909-1913en
dcterms.issued2018-06
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectbody weighten
dcterms.subjectweight gainen
dcterms.subjectbirdsen
dcterms.subjectguinea fowlsen
dcterms.subjectmicrobial additionen
dcterms.subjectblood parametersen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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