Zammit Victor A, Park Sang-O
Metabolic Biochemistry, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
HooinEcobio Institute, Hongseong-gun 32280, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea.
Microorganisms. 2023 Sep 19;11(9):2345. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11092345.
Recently, applied technology in the form of the combination of a probiotics and a digital poultry system, with the convergence of Information and Communications Technology and farm animals, has enabled a new strategy to overcome the livestock production crisis caused by climate change, while maintaining sustainable poultry farming in terms of care, feeding, and environmental management systems for poultry. The aim of this study was to investigate the biological mechanisms of animal behavioral welfare and production improvement using the combination of a probiotics and a digital poultry system in broiler chickens. A total of 400 one-day-old male broilers (ROSS 308) were randomly divided into four treatment groups, with five replicates each (20 birds/replicate pen) in a completely randomized design: control group with a conventional poultry system without probiotics (CON), conventional poultry system with 500 ppm of probiotics (CON500), digital poultry control system without probiotics (DPCS), and digital poultry system with 500 ppm of probiotics (DPS500). All experimental animals were reared for 35 days under the same standard environmental conditions. The experimental results indicated that the animal behavioral welfare, which includes drinking, eating, locomotion, grooming, and resting, in addition to foot pads, knee burns, plumage, and gait scores, as well as the growth performance of the broiler chickens, were improved by maintaining immune function and cecal microbiota balance via interaction between the combination of a probiotics and a digital poultry system. In conclusion, it was found that the combined system showed improved broiler growth performance and animal behavioral welfare. Thus, further studies of molecular biological mechanisms by the use of such a combined system to improve the nutritional composition and quality of chicken meats are recommended.
最近,益生菌与数字家禽系统相结合的应用技术,随着信息通信技术与农场动物的融合,促成了一种新策略,以克服气候变化导致的畜牧生产危机,同时在对家禽的照料、喂养及环境管理系统方面维持可持续的家禽养殖。本研究的目的是调查在肉鸡中使用益生菌与数字家禽系统的组合来改善动物行为福利和生产性能的生物学机制。总共400只一日龄雄性肉鸡(ROSS 308)被随机分为四个处理组,每组五个重复(每个重复栏20只鸡),采用完全随机设计:对照组为不使用益生菌的传统家禽系统(CON),使用500 ppm益生菌的传统家禽系统(CON500),不使用益生菌的数字家禽控制系统(DPCS),以及使用500 ppm益生菌的数字家禽系统(DPS500)。所有实验动物在相同的标准环境条件下饲养35天。实验结果表明,通过益生菌与数字家禽系统的组合之间的相互作用维持免疫功能和盲肠微生物群平衡,肉鸡的动物行为福利(包括饮水、进食、运动、梳理羽毛和休息),以及脚垫、膝盖灼伤、羽毛和步态评分,还有生长性能都得到了改善。总之,发现该组合系统提高了肉鸡的生长性能和动物行为福利。因此,建议进一步研究使用这种组合系统来改善鸡肉的营养成分和品质的分子生物学机制。
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