Evaluation of Potential Effects of Locally Isolated Streptomyces
Species as Growth Promoter in Commercial Broilers
Bakhtawar Maqbool1*,
Muhammad Ashraf1**, Shazia Khaliq2,
Sajjad-Ur-Rahman1 and Khurram Ashfaq3
1Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary
Science, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan; 2Industrial
Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and
Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Constituent College of Pakistan
Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Faisalabad,
Pakistan; 3Department
of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Science,
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. *Corresponding author:*bakhtawardogar@yahoo.com (BM);
**mashraf@uaf.edu.pk (MA)
Abstract
In this study, local soil samples were collected
for the isolation of Streptomyces. Molecular characterization and gene
sequencing of 16S rRNA was done for identification of Streptomyces
species which has been used in this study as a probiotic in feed. To evaluate
their potential and efficacy as a probiotic in-Vivo, day old broiler chicks
(total 140) were purchased from local hatchery and acclimatized for seven days
and then divided in 07 experimental groups having 20 birds in each entitled as
Group A, B, C, D, E, F and G, where group A served as control and all other were
supplemented with feed having streptomyces as a supplement (probiotics).
Various species of the streptomyces including Streptomyces globiosporus,
Streptomyces toxitricin, Streptomyces WSN2, Streptomyces rochie
and Streptomyces fimbritus to group B, C, D and E, respectively.
Group G was treated with commercially available growth promoter (Greig® BS).
Parameters including physiological (feed intake, weight gain, organ weight) and
immunological parameters (carbon clearance assay, Lymphoproliferative response
to avian tuberculin) of the birds were evaluated, thoroughly. The data thus
obtained was subjected to the M-stat C software for statistical analysis.
Significant additive effect on the broiler’s performance in all treatment groups
those received probiotic was observed as compared to the control in terms of
physiological and immunological parameters. The birds supplemented with
Streptomyces globiosporus revealed the better growth and improved feed
intake as compared to all other tested species. Hence, it has been concluded
that these local isolates of the streptomyces have potential to be promoted as
the probiotic in the poultry feed which will be more economical and profitable
to the farmers.
To Cite This Article:
Maqbool B, Ashraf M,
Khaliq S, Sajjad-Ur-Rahman and Ashfaq K,
2023. Evaluation of potential effects of
locally isolated streptomyces species as growth promoter in commercial
broilers. Pak Vet J, 43(4): 757-763. http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2023.092