Influence of humic acids as a feed supplement on the health status of suckling piglets

Trajchev, Metodija and Micev, Dimitar and Nakov, Dimitar and Glavash Dodov, Marija (2022) Influence of humic acids as a feed supplement on the health status of suckling piglets. Macedonian Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 68 (03). pp. 309-310. ISSN 1409-8695

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Abstract

Over the last decades, antimicrobial additives in
livestock feed are used as growth promoters for increased
weight gain and better feed conversion. Additionally, they
decrease the risk for disease occurrence in the livestock
herds. Therefore, antimicrobial feed additives have an
economic role in livestock production for optimization of
nutritional strategies to generate profit. The most used antimicrobial feed additives are antibiotics, but recently their uncontrolled use in livestock production lead to bacterial resistance, including pathogens that cause diseases in humans and animals. For that reason, nowadays antibiotics are more perceived as a risk than are growth promoters in livestock production. One of the alternatives for the replacement of antibiotic use as feed supplements (antibiotic-free range) is humic acids, which are widely used in broiler production, and recently their use is expanded in pig production. Humic acids are defined as a group of organic acids naturally contained in the humus. They originated from the decomposition of organic substances, especially plants in the soils. The use of dietary natural humic acids as feed supplements in swine production is increasing the expectations for the better health status of herds as a result of immunological system stimulation and their antibacterial and antiviral effects.
Until now, there are huge gaps in knowledge of the biological effect of humic acids in animals. The main aim
of the performed survey was to evaluate the effect of
natural humic acids used as feed additives on health
records in piglets.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Agricultural Sciences > Animal and dairy science Agricultural Sciences > Veterinary science
Divisions:	Faculty of Agriculture
Depositing User:	Dimitar Nakov
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2023 10:03
Last Modified:	30 Jan 2023 10:03
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/30980

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