Mw. Fucun Guo, MSc : Polysaccharides as alternative for antimicrobial growth promotors in poultry

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18 Jun 2003 16:00
Unit: Wageningen University
Location: Aula (gebouw 362), Gen. Foulkesweg 1, Wageningen
Promotor: prof.dr.ir. M.W.A. Verstegen (Animal Nutrition - Monogastrics)
Co Promotor: dr.ir. R.P. Kwakkel, dr. B.A. Williams, prof. Z.Q. Yang (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China)

 Antibiotics are widely used as therapeutics agents and also as growth promotors in poultry production. However, use of antibiotics in animals' diets will cause a disturbed gut eco-system and may develop a resistent population of bacteria in birds. The possibility of developing resistant populations of bacteria and the side effects of using antibiotics as growth promoters in the farm animals has led to the recent EU-ban on the use of several antibiotics in poultry diets. The restriction antimicrobial growth promoters will have consequences for the health and production status of animals especially young pigs and broiler chickens. Therefore, there is an intensive search for alternatives such as probiotics, prebiotics and other feed additives. In this thesis chinese herbal medicine are been studied as possible alternatives for antibiotics.
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