Effect of herbal oil, toxin binder and their combination during induced aflatoxicosis in broilers: Growth and biochemical study Kumar D.Senthil1,*,3, Rao Suguna3, Satyanarayana M.L.3, Gowda S.M. Byre2,3, Kumar P.G. Pradeep3, Anitha N.3 3Department of Veterinary Pathology, Veterinary College, Bangalore, 1High Security Animal Disease Laboratory, Bhopal, 2Institute of Animal Health and Veterinary Biologicals, Bangalore *Corresponding author: email: senvetpath@gmail.com
Abstract An experiment was conducted to study protective role of both individual and combined effect of herbal oil and toxin binder during induced aflatoxicosis in broilers. A total of 320 broilers were divided on 7th day of age into eight equal groups. Group A served as a control and was given standard broiler feed without aflatoxin and groups E, F, G and H were given aflatoxin @ 1ppm in feed. Groups B, D, G and H were given herbal oil @ 2.5 g/kg of feed and groups C, D, G and H were given toxin binder @ 1g/kg of feed. The chicks were given respective feed from 7th day to 42nd day of age. There was reduction in the body weight and increased FCR in toxin fed birds of group E, F, G and H from 21st day of age. But in general, herbal oil and toxin binder supplementation either alone or in combination showed marginally improved body weight gain and FCR marginally than toxin fed Group E. There was increase in relative liver weight in aflatoxin fed birds and it was reduced in toxin fed groups supplemented with herbal oil and toxin binder either alone or in combination. There was marginal improvement in the serum total protein and albumin in supplemented birds. Significant increase in serum AST, ALP and ALT levels was observed in only toxin fed group and were significantly reduced in broilers fed with herbal oil, toxin binder or both. But significant reduction in ALT levels in toxin binder alone supplemented group was observed only at the end of the experiment. Supplementation of diets with herbal oil, toxin binder both partially counteracted the alterations induced by aflatoxicosis. The supplementation of herbal oil alone or both was marginally superior to toxin binder alone. Top Keywords Aflatoxicosis, Broilers, Herbal oil, Toxin binder. Top |