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The Clinical Effects of an Herbal Antimicrobial Feed Additive in Growing Chickens  

Oh, Hong-Geun (Huvet Co. Ltd, Business Incubation center, Wonkwang University)
Park, Hyun (Zoonosis Research Center, Wonkwang University)
Kim, Youn-Chul (College of Pharmacy, Wonkwang University)
Lee, Hyun-A (Center for Animal Resource Development, Wonkwang University)
Kim, Ok-Jin (Center for Animal Resource Development, Wonkwang University)
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Journal of Veterinary Clinics / v.27, no.1, 2010 , pp. 17-22 More about this Journal
Abstract
The natural herbal antimicrobial additive, Flavo-$SK^{TM}$, was developed by Zoonosis Research Center of Wonkwang University. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of Flavo-$SK^{TM}$ on the health status and performance of growing chickens. This study was conducted on the growing chickens (n=20,000) for 31 days in a growing chickens husbandry. The animals were divided with two groups; Flavo-$SK^{TM}$ treated group (n=10,000) and commercial diet feeding group (n=10,000). The Flavo-$SK^{TM}$ treated animals had provided with commercial diet adding the Flavo-$SK^{TM}$ as 0.29%. During the study period, we compared clinical signs, weight increase rate, diet consumption amount, gross finding, necropsy findings and histopathological findings between the treated group and non treated group. As the results of this clinical trial, the natural herbal antimicrobial additive, Flavo-$SK^{TM}$, showed the effects on disease reduction. It is suggested that Flavo-$SK^{TM}$ has the antimicrobial effects.
Keywords
antimicrobials; antibacterial; herb; feed additive; chicken;
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