Studying the Efficiency of Natural and Synthetic Adsorbents in Combined Feed for Broiler Chickens

摘要

This work was aimed at studying the efficiency of adsorbents of various origins – natural bentonite and synthetic Kovelos-Sorb based on silicon dioxide – in feeding broiler chickens. It was found that feeding the studied additives contributed to increasing the intensity of growth of young poultry by 8.0–9.4?%, as evidenced by the increase in the amounts of total blood serum protein by 2.3–2.5?%, in the number of colony forming Lactobacillus in the contents of ceca by 17.5–31.3?%, and in the content of heavy metals in the muscle tissues of the chickens by 16.7–60.0?%. Based on biochemical, microbiological and toxicological studies, it can be argued that the use of sorbents, both natural bentonite and synthetic Kovelos-Sorb, has a positive effect on the physiological indicators of broiler chickens, which is manifested in an increase in the rate of their growth and a decrease in feed consumption per unit of product by 4.8-5.9?%.