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Efficacy Of Acacia Nilotica Bark Extract As An Alternative To Antibiotics In Broilers Challenged With Escherishia Coli From 15 To 28 Days, Muhammad Umer Zahid, Anjum Khalique, Shafqat Nawaz Qaisrani, Muhammad Ashraf, Ali Ahmad Sheikh, Muhammad Umar Yaqoob

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The present experiment was conducted to compare the effect of Acacia nilotica bark extract and antibiotic on different biological parameters in broilers challenged with E. coli. Five hundred 2-week-old broiler chicks were divided into five treatments (Cont, NC, PC, AN-BE3, and AN-BE5) with ten replicates per treatment (10 chicks per replicate), and the experiment was extended over 2 weeks. All chicks, except that of Cont were challenged with E. coli (10$^{7}$ CFU/bird). Cont: basal diet only; NC: challenged with E. coli; PC: NC + Zinc Bacitracin 50 mg/kg diet; AN-BE3: NC + A. nilotica bark extract supplementation 0.3%; …