Integrated and Sustainable Approach to the Poultry Production Chain by Enhanced Animal Resilience and Improved Meat Quality and Safety
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Poultry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2020) | Viewed by 46797
Special Issue Editors
Interests: production and meat quality; intramuscular collagen; lipids; hystology; in ovo technology; small ruminants; pig; poultry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is imperative that today’s poultry industries be proactive in improving animal health and growth and the safety of poultry products in a sustainable way. There is a global urgency to reduce or eliminate antibiotic use in poultry production due to the strong upsurge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which has turned into a worldwide health concern. In poultry production, the elimination of antibiotic growth promoters from broiler diet has led to increased incidence of clinical and subclinical necrotic enteritis with reduction of productivity, increased mortality, and associated food product contamination. Therefore, non-antibiotic alternatives which can control disease and promote the growth of chickens are of great interest.
Original research papers concerning the integrated and sustainable approaches to poultry production chain to enhance animal resilience and improve meat quality and safety are welcome in this Special Issue. Special interest will be given to multidisciplinary approaches. Topics of interest are the testing and validation of new strategies to reduce or eliminate the use of antibiotics in poultry production and the characterization of the overall response of the avian host to microbiome stimulation in various chicken genotypes on multiple levels, including important production traits, biological indicators, and gut microflora species composition.
Prof. Giuseppe Maiorano
Prof. Siria Tavaniello
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prebiotics
- probiotics
- synbiotics
- gut microflora
- gene expression
- immune parameters
- growth performance
- meat quality
- meat safety
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