Food and Agricultural Immunology (Jan 2018)

Effects of Clostridium butyricum and Lactobacillus plantarum on growth performance, immune function and volatile fatty acid level of caecal digesta in broilers

  • Jinfeng Han,
  • Yongwei Wang,
  • Dan Song,
  • Zixian Lu,
  • Zhenglin Dong,
  • Haijiang Miao,
  • Weiwei Wang,
  • Jianhua He,
  • Aike Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540105.2018.1457013
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 1
pp. 797 – 807

Abstract

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The study was conducted to investigate the effects of Clostridium butyricum and Lactobacillus plantarum on growth performance, immune function and volatile fatty acid (VFA) level of caecal digesta in broilers. One hundred and forty broilers were assigned to five groups (CON: basal diet; CB: basal diet+ C. butyricum; MLP: basal diet+ L. plantarum; MIX: basal diet+ C. butyricum + L. plantarum; ANT: basal diet + Aureomycin). The results showed that, birds in CB group had greater serum IgM level than that in control group at day 21 (P .05). The current results indicated that dietary supplementation of C. butyricum increased serum immunoglobulin level and VFA level of caecal digesta in broilers, but a combination of supplementations with C. butyricum and L. plantarum had no significant effect on growth performance.

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