Vol. 7, Issue 7 (2018)

Author(s):
Ravinder Dahiya and Kapil Dev

Abstract:
The poultry industry is a well-organized and fast growing sector of Indian economy. Introduction of improved breeds, nutritional standards, knowledge of disease prevention and scientific management practices have increased meat and egg production significantly. Now the poultry sector is continuously searching for new feed additives in order to improve the feed efficiency with minimum deleterious effects on animal health. Organic acids have made a great contribution to profitability in poultry production and also provided people with nutritious poultry products A modernistic challenge in the poultry production is to exploit the use of specific dietary supplements to boost the intrinsic potential of poultry birds in order to perform better.