IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v13y2021i15p8467-d603973.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Honeybee and Plant Products as Natural Antimicrobials in Enhancement of Poultry Health and Production

Author

Listed:
  • Erinda Lika

    (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Agricultural University of Tirana, Koder Kamez, 1029 Tirana, Albania)

  • Marija Kostić

    (Faculty of Hotel Management and Tourism Vrnjačka Banja, University of Kragujevac, Vojvođanska Ulica bb, 36210 Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia)

  • Sunčica Vještica

    (The Faculty of Applied Ecology, University Metropolitan Belgrade, Požeška 83a, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia)

  • Ivan Milojević

    (Ministry of Defense, The Human Resource Sector, Nemanjina 15, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia)

  • Nikola Puvača

    (Department of Engineering Management in Biotechnology, Faculty of Economics and Engineering Management in Novi Sad, University Business Academy in Novi Sad, Cvećarska 2, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia)

Abstract

The quality and safety attributes of poultry products have attracted increasing widespread attention and interest from scholarly groups and the general population. As natural and safe alternatives to synthetic and artificial chemical drugs (e.g., antibiotics), botanical products are recently being used in poultry farms more than 60% of the time for producing organic products. Medicinal plants, and honeybee products, are natural substances, and they were added to poultry diets in a small amount (between 1% and 3%) as a source of nutrition and to provide health benefits for poultry. In addition, they have several biological functions in the poultry body and may help to enhance their welfare. These supplements can increase the bodyweight of broilers and the egg production of laying hens by approximately 7% and 10% and enhance meat and egg quality by more than 25%. Moreover, they can improve rooster semen quality by an average of 20%. Previous research on the main biological activities performed by biotics has shown that most research only concentrated on the notion of using botanical products as growth promoters, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial agents. In the current review, the critical effects and functions of bee products and botanicals are explored as natural and safe alternative feed additives in poultry production, such as antioxidants, sexual-stimulants, immuno-stimulants, and for producing healthy products.

Suggested Citation

  • Erinda Lika & Marija Kostić & Sunčica Vještica & Ivan Milojević & Nikola Puvača, 2021. "Honeybee and Plant Products as Natural Antimicrobials in Enhancement of Poultry Health and Production," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(15), pages 1-20, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:15:p:8467-:d:603973
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/15/8467/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/15/8467/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Abdul Hafeez & Shahid Iqbal & Arbab Sikandar & Salahud Din & Imad Khan & Saima Ashraf & Rifat Ullah Khan & Vincenzo Tufarelli & Vito Laudadio, 2021. "Feeding of Phytobiotics and Exogenous Protease in Broilers: Comparative Effect on Nutrient Digestibility, Bone Strength and Gut Morphology," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-8, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Nikola Puvača & Vincenzo Tufarelli, 2022. "Sustainable Organic Agriculture for Developing Agribusiness Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-3, August.
    2. Nikola Puvača & Vincenzo Tufarelli & Eva Voslarova, 2022. "Animal Nutrition and Welfare in Sustainable Production Systems," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-3, July.
    3. Nikola Puvača & Vincenzo Tufarelli & Ilias Giannenas, 2022. "Essential Oils in Broiler Chicken Production, Immunity and Meat Quality: Review of Thymus vulgaris , Origanum vulgare , and Rosmarinus officinalis," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-22, June.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Dănuț Ioan Struți & Daniel Mierlita & Andrea Bunea, 2023. "Improving the Use of White Lupine in the Laying Quail Feeding by Enzymes Addition: Effects on Productive Performances, Digestion, Blood Biochemical Indices and Eggs Quality," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-19, February.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:15:p:8467-:d:603973. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.