Author: rearing Patil, D. Thakur, Anamika, K. Govill, C. Malapure, Dinesh Kumar, Pavan K Yadav less
Aloe vera (Aloe vera (L.) burm. f.), Liliaceae family , use of aloe vera as herbal feed additive in livestock and poultry feeds, healthy animal food, new class of additives to animal and poultry feeds have beneficial properties such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, and antifungal , immunomodulatory and anticoccidial effects, supplement feeds need a larger number of objectives (improving nutrient utilization and growth performance, immunity response, intestinal microflora, and controlling particular diseases), multifunctional herbs, Higher body weight gain, better feed conversion efficiency (FCE) and production of milk, meat and eggs are important economic goals in livestock and poultry farming, growth performance and production of animals, feed additives, like prebiotics, probiotics, organic acids and herbs, on growth performance and production compared to those of antibiotics, experiment conducted on birds fed diet supplemented with 1 % or 2 % aloe vera leaves had greater body weight gain, better feed intake and FCR than those fed diets without aloe vera, 1 % dietary inclusion of aloe vera leaves powder in broiler diet, there was significant difference in body weight gains in birds fed aloe vera supplemented feed as compared to control group, better growth performance in broilers treated with 0.75% and 1% aloe vera gel powder compared to the 0.5% aloe vera gel powder, aqueous extract of aloe gel per litre of drinking water in broiler have beneficial effect on body weight gain and feed conversion efficiency, polysaccharides of aloe vera (mainly, acemannan) has prebiotic like effect which increase the number of lactobacillus colonies and reduce gram negative bacteria, fermentation product of lactobacillus is short chain fatty acid that will reduce the pH of lower intestine and create favorable environment for gram negative bacteria, supplementation of aloe vera in drinking water had beneficial effect on final body weight, weekly body weight gain, and average feed intake
