Shad Mahfuz

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• PhD; Post Doc.
• Professor at Sylhet Agricultural University

Simple Summary The continued overuse of antibiotics in the poultry industry with the purpose of increasing production performance and health status has led to human health hazards. This research explores the use of medicinal mushrooms to get rid of antibiotics in poultry feed without affecting optimum performance. Most medicinal mushrooms contain b...

Plant extracts have been proved as natural antioxidants resources as well as alternative feed additives in livestock and poultry species. Chestnut wood extract (CWE) as a source of hydrolysable tannic acid was used to evaluate the growth performance, nutrient retention, meat quality, antioxidant status, and immune function of broilers. A total of 1...

Due to ban on using antibiotics in feed industry, awareness of using natural feed additives have led to a great demand. The interest of plants phenolic compounds as a potential natural antioxidant source has been considered in research community due to their predictable potential role as feed additives in poultry and swine production. However, the...

Simple Summary This study evaluated the effects of Moringa oleifera leaf powder (MLP) on the growth performance, meat quality, carcass traits, blood profile, and cecal bacteria of broiler chickens. MLP-fed broilers showed the highest weight gain, average daily feed intake, and best feed efficiency, as evidenced by a lower feed conversion ratio. MLP...

Oyster mushroom stem residue, a by-product with medicinal and nutritive values, might be a prospective feed supplement in poultry nutrition. The study focused on evaluating the impact of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) stem residue (OMSR) powder supplementation on growth performance, carcass traits, meat quality, blood characteristics, and th...

In this study, the aim was to evaluate the effects of dietary 25-hydroxycholecalciferol supplementation from day 85 of gestation on performance, antioxidant capacity, and immunoglobulin level of sows and newborn piglets. On day 85 of gestation, forty Landrace × Yorkshire gestating sows (average body weight of 241 ± 6.8 kg; average parity of 3.47 ±...

This study investigated the effects of Moringa oleifera leaf extracts (MLE) in broiler diets on growth performance, carcase characteristics, physical meat quality, haematological parameters,and caecal bacterial counts. A total of 144 Arbour Acres broilers were randomly assigned into 3 experimental groups (eight replicates having six chicks), naming...

This research explored the feasibility of using oyster mushroom stem residue (Pleurotus ostreatus) as a natural feed supplement alternative to the antibiotic used in the broiler's feed as a growth promoter.

Purpose Renewable technologies are considered a clean energy source, providing an excellent opportunity to reduce global warming and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by substituting conventional energy sources based on natural resources. This study compared the effects of different renewable energy sources on the internal pig house environment, ha...

This experiment was conducted to assess the effects of a geothermal plus sunlight-based incubator on the growth performance, electricity uses and housing environment of piglets. A total of 20 piglets, average 7.7 ± 0.015 kg (mean ± std.) initial body weight, were randomly divided into two separated incubators: control (conventional incubator) and t...

Simple Summary A combined geothermal heat pump and solar system (GHPS) was installed at a pig house to check the effects on electricity consumption, greenhouse gas emission (GHE), internal farm temperature, the concentration of noxious gases and growth performance. The GHPS heating system reduced energy consumption and CO2 concentrations. Furthermo...

Preventing pigs such as wild pigs (Sus scrofa) from accessing the farm can be blocked by installing fences or repellent to make them feel reluctant to access the farm. Most wild pigs were captured to prevent crop damage and the incidence of African swine fever (ASF). Still, there is a limit to capturing them due to the rapid population growth. A st...

This study examined the effects of solar heating systems as a source of renewable energy on the growth performance, electricity uses, and housing environments of piglets. For this trial, a total of 20 piglets having a similar average body weight of 6.83 ± 1.07 kg (mean ± std.) were randomly divided into 2 (two) incubators, the control (conventional...

The body temperature of livestock animals can be the main parameter for measuring their health and well-being, such as proestrus, estrus, and pregnancy. The control of estrus and ovulation has become the main topic for a batch of flow management, and the failure to detect estrus accurately has the greatest impact on labor rate and litter size. Digi...

Restriction on using antibiotics in animal feed that generates demand for antibiotics alternatives in animal breeding. Providing safe food to humans free from the residual effects of antibiotics is a great challenge to animal producers and food-producing industry owners. Medicinal plants and their extracts as feed supplements have been used to prom...

The size of the pork market is increasing globally to meet the demand for animal protein, resulting in greater farm size for swine and creating a great challenge to swine farmers and industry owners in monitoring the farm activities and the health and behavior of the herd of swine. In addition, the growth of swine production is resulting in a chang...

BACKGROUND This experiment was to investigate the effect of dietary live yeast (LY, 1 × 10¹⁰ CFU g⁻¹) supplementation on serum metabolic parameters, meat quality as well as antioxidant enzyme activity of transported broilers. A total of 192 one‐day‐old broilers were randomly assigned to four treatments with six replicates and eight chicks per repli...

14 The mammalian gut is inhabited by a massive and complicated microbial 15 community, in which the host achieves a stable symbiotic environment through the 16 interdependence, coordination, reciprocal constraints and participation in an immune 17 response. The interaction between the host gut and the microbiota is essential for 18 maintaining and...

Background: Organic acid as a green feed additive is increasingly favoured by enterprises and scholars, but little emphasis has been placed on the effect of organic acids on broiler meat quality. Methods: A total of 192 male chicks (one-day-old, weighted 48.40 ± 0.64 g) were selected to investigate the effect of mixed organic acids (MOA) on growth...

A total of 180 weaning pigs (28 d of age, weighted 7.81±1.51 kg) were selected to explore the relationship between the different levels of mixed organic acids (MOA) on performance, serum antioxidant status and intestinal health of weaned piglets, as well as to investigate the potential possibility of MOA alternative to antibiotics growth promoters...

The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of dietary supplementation with mixed organic acids on intestinal health, enzyme activity, and antioxidative characteristics in broilers. A total of 192 1-day-old chicks were evenly allocated to three experimental groups with eight replicates, a basal diet with 0 (Control), 3,000 mg/kg (LMOA), 6,0...

Maternal diet has a profound impact on growth and immune development of offspring. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of maternal supplementation with a combination of wheat bran (WB, a source of insoluble dietary fiber) and sugar beet pulp (SBP, a source of soluble dietary fiber) on growth and intestinal morphology, immunity, barrier functio...

The primary aim of this experiment was to critically explore the relationship between the different levels of mixed organic acids (MOA) and growth performance, serum antioxidant status and intestinal health of weaned piglets, as well as to investigate the potential possibility of MOA alternative to antibiotics growth promoters (AGP). A total of 180...

Simple Summary The stress after weaning is the critical problem for nursery pigs. Although antibiotics and zinc oxide (ZnO) could be efficient methods to alleviate weaning stress, the abuse of them might be harmful for the environment. The current study found that live yeast (LY, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (strain CNCM I-4407, 10¹⁰ CFU/g)) or S. cere...

Abstract Background Sows are frequently subjected to various stresses during late gestation and lactation, which trigger inflammatory response and metabolic disorders. Dietary fiber can influence animal health by modulating gut microbiota and their by-products, with the effects depending upon the source of the dietary fiber. This study aimed to eva...

This study examined the impacts of different fiber sources on growth, immune status and gut health in weaned piglets fed antibiotic-free diets. Sixty piglets with body weights of 8.18 ± 1.35 kg were assigned to 3 dietary treatments based on body weight and gender in a randomized complete block design (5 replicates/treatment and 4 piglets (2 barrows...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of natural capsicum extract (NCE, containing 2% natural capsaicin, the rest is carrier) replacing chlortetracycline (CTC) on performance, digestive enzyme activities, antioxidant capacity, inflammatory cytokines, and gut health in weaned pigs. A total of 108 weaned pigs (Duroc × [Landrace ×...

Microencapsulation is a process where very minute droplets or particles of solid or liquid or gas are trapped with a polymer to isolate the internal core material from external environmental hazards. Microencapsulation is applied mostly for flavor masking, fortification, and sustained and control release. It improves palatability, absorption, and b...

This study evaluated the effects of live yeast (LY, Saccharomyces cerevisiae) on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, immune function, antioxidant status and intestinal morphology of broilers. A total of 224, 1 day-old broilers were assigned 4 treatments (7 replications, 8 chicks each) and fed a basal diet control group (CTR); antibiotic gro...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of compound enzymes (CE) (containing per g 375 U amylase, 2500 U protease, 4000 U xylanase and 150 U β-glucanase) on performance, nutrient digestibility, serum antioxidant status, immunoglobulins, intestinal morphology, volatile fatty acids contents and microbiota community in weaned pigs. Sev...

Background: Sows are frequently subjected to various stresses during late gestation and lactation, which trigger inflammatory response and metabolic disorders. Dietary fiber can influence animal health by modulating gut microbiota and their by-products, with the effects depending upon the source of the dietary fiber. This study aimed to evaluate th...

Simple Summary Recently, dietary fiber has gained special attention due to its various beneficial effects on poultry. In poultry, moderate amounts of insoluble dietary fiber have been shown to be beneficial to nutrient utilization by improving the physiology of the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, this study used wheat bran as a source of insolub...

Mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) stem residue (MSR) is rich with bioactive ingredients. This study aimed to assess the role of mushroom stem residue (MSR) on growth performance, meat quality, antioxidant status, and lipid metabolism of broilers. A total 168 Arbour Acres male broilers were assigned into 3 treatments (7 replications, 8 chicks each) an...

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of wheat bran and antibiotics on growth performance, intestinal immunity, barrier function and microbial composition in broiler chickens. A total of 168 day-old male Arbor Acre chicks were allocated to 3 treatments consisting of 7 replicates with 8 birds per replicate. The 3 treatments were: an...

This study evaluated duck-fish integration to the diet of households to improve food and nutrition security. The study was undertaken at Bolli village in Netrokona of Bangladesh for a period of 3 months from October to December 2017. It was done by questionnaire interviews of households, key informant interviews, and secondary data. Most of the hou...

This experiment as a 2 (soybean or fermented soybean) x 2 (drinking 6L or 4L milk every day ) multifactor experimental design was carried out at Jilin Agricultural University, China to study the effects of soybean meal (SBM) fermented with Bacillus subtilis, on the growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood urea nitrogen and diarrhea inciden...

Simple Summary Zinc oxide (ZnO) is generally used to control diarrhea and improve gut health in weaned piglets. To protect weaned pigs from intestinal injuries and to decrease environmental zinc load, it is essential to find an alternative to ZnO. In the present study, hydrolysable tannins (HT) showed decreased diarrhea rate and improving gut healt...

Subclinical mastitis (SCM) is an over emphasized form of mastitis causes great economical loss in dairy farms due to reduction in milk production. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of subclinical mastitis in crossbred (local Zebu x Holstein Friesian or Sahiwal or Sindhi) and indigenous lactating cows. The study was carried out in...

Simple Summary The findings in the current study reveal that dietary fish oil or a combination of linseed oil and microalgae could be effective in improving growth performance, carcass traits, muscle fatty acid deposition, and antioxidant capacity in broilers compared with traditional soybean oil in broilers. Abstract This study aimed to investiga...

Supplementing broiler diets with medicinal mushrooms is considered an effective alternative to prophylactic antibiotics. Feeding certain mushrooms may have beneficial effects on gut health in broilers, whereby trials have shown weight gain was increased about 5.2% when feeding 5% of the Hericium caput-medusae mushrooms in the diet. Both Salmonella...

The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects of Flammulinavelutipes stem base (FVS) on growth performance, microbial flora and volatile fatty acids of growing layers under heat stress condition. A total of 72 ISA Brown hens were randomly divided into six treatments: thermoneutral temperature control group (CON), heat stress control g...

Simple Summary The extensive use of antibiotics in the poultry industry to increase production performance has led to human health hazards. The use of natural herbs as antibiotic substitutes has been reported in the poultry feed industry. Therefore, the objective of this review was to determine the effect of different levels of mushrooms and their...

Simple Summary The abuse of antibiotics in animals feed may cause antibiotic-resistant microbes and antibiotic residue in animal products. Probiotics (PB) have been used in the feed industry for several decades due to their beneficial effects on immunity and the growth of livestock and poultry. However, the efficiency of PB on animals varies due to...

A total sixteen female Black Bengal goats (BBG) considering average live weight were randomly divided into four equal treatments to study the effect of different level of concentrates supplementation on production and reproduction performance of BBG. The animals were assigned to adlibitum green grass and supplemented with different levels of concen...

The extensive use of antibiotics in poultry industry with the purpose of increasing production performance has led to human health hazards. A driving force for the interest of using natural herbs is to eliminate the use of low-dose antibiotics in poultry production. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Flammulina vel...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant properties of serum and egg yolk in ISA Brown layer hens fed with mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) stembase (FVS). A total 150 hens of 30 wk old were grouped into 5 equal treatments with 5 replications of 6 hens each. Dietary treatments included basal diet as a control group; control diet i...

Simple Summary Weaning stress may reduce feed intake, weight gain and health status of piglets. Antibiotics are used to overcome post-weaning disorders. However, the abuse of antibiotics in pig feed has become a worldwide problem. Previous studies show Chinese herbs have been used as a potential non-antibiotic way to enhance anti-inflammatory and a...

Natural products with high antioxidant activity have attracted great attention in recent years. A water extraction and alcohol precipitation method were used to extract polysaccharides from the Flammulina velutipes stembase(FVSP). The series of samples including FVSP30, FVSP45, FVSP60, and FVSP75 were isolated by different concentrations of ethanol...

Simple Summary The wide application of in-feed antibiotics in poultry production has created public health hazards. A driving force for the interest of using natural herbs is to establish the antibiotics alternative in poultry production that has been reported in the literature. Therefore, the objective of the current review is to determine the eff...

The possibility of using mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) stem waste (FVW) in layer diets was explored in this study. A total of 180, 40-week-old ISA Brown laying hens were randomly assigned to 5 groups, with 6 replications of 6 birds for each group. Layers were fed a standard basal diet as control; antibiotic (0.05% flavomycin); 2% FVW; 4%FVW; and...

BACKGROUND Medicinal mushrooms contain biologically active substances that can be used as an immune‐modulating agent in poultry. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of Flammulina velutipes mushroom waste (FVW) on performance, immune response and serum immunity in growing layer hens. RESULTS No significant differences (P > 0.05) were...

The driving force behind the interest in using natural herbs in poultry production is to eliminate the use of low-dose antibiotics. Therefore, this study was carried out to investigate the effect of Flammulina velutipes mushroom waste (FVW) on performance parameters, relative organ weight, apparent nutrient retention, excreta composition, immune re...

Objective: This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of golden needle mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) stem waste (FVW), on organic eggs production, calcium utilization, antibody response, serum immunoglobulin, and serum cytokine concentration at early phase of production in laying hens. Methods: A total 210, 19 weeks old aged ISA Bro...

Fermentation concentrate of Hericium caput-medusae(Bull.:Fr.) Pers.(HFC) was used in this study and two different molecular weights oligosaccharides (HFCO1, HFCO2) were obtained by dialysis methods. Furthermore, DEAE Sepharose fast flow and Sephadex G-25column chromatography were used to obtain the two purified components (HFCO1-1, HFCO2-1). The tw...

The objective of the study was to evaluate the effects of spices on forage utilization and nitrogen (N) emission using in vitro and in vivo approach. A 6 × 5 factorial triplicate arrangement was used to assess the in vitro degradability of rice straw with control (without spices) and individual (40 mg/g rice straw) spices (cumin, coriander, clove,...

Supplementation of probiotic as a mean to improve the health and performance of poultry has generated significant interest over the last few years. A driving force for the interest of probiotic is to eliminate the use of low-dose antibiotics in poultry production. The extensive use of antibiotics in poultry with the purpose of promoting growth rate...

A total sixteen female Black Bengal goats (BBG) considering average live weight were randomly divided into four equal treatments to study the effect of different level of concentrates supplementation on production and reproduction performance of BBG. The animals were assigned to adlibitum green grass and supplemented with different levels of concen...

This study was conducted to represent the role of Flammulina velutipes stem in laying hen ration for improving laying performances and health status of layer chicken. Flammulina velutipes is one of the most popular edible mushroom in Asian countries and known as winter mushroom. Inclusion of Flammulina velutipes stem (FVS) in layer diets is the mos...

Key words: Phosphorus supplementation, Rice straw, Rumen dry matter degradability, Rumen organic matter degradability, Rumen ammonia nitrogen. Abstract Rice straw is the basal feed in some developing countries. Although its availability is abundant but nutritive value and digestibility is very poor. During the last five decades much research has be...

The present study was conducted to find out the effects of analgesic and anaesthetic drugs for cranial epidural analgesia in Black Bengal goats. A series of thirty two (n=32) analgesic trails were conducted in goats age ranged from 8 to 12 months and with an average body weight of 8.1 kg. The animals were divided into four groups (n=4) and a replic...

International Journal of Business, Social and Scientific Research (ISSN: 2309-7892) is a multidisciplinary open access, double blinded peer reviewed international journal that provides a rapid avenue to publish outstanding applied and basic researches in all the fields of business, social sciences and scientific research. We felt the absence of a c...

The experiment was conducted to investigate milk urea nitrogen (MUN) in relation to lactation stage of dairy cows. Milk samples, feed samples and necessary data were collected from 30 lactating dairy cows of different lactation stage from Sirajganj district. All cows were crossbreed in which 10 were at early (1st 45 DIM), 10 were at mid (46-150 DIM...

The present study was conducted at Dairy farm of Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Dhaka and Sathia Upazila of Pabna to investigate the milk composition in relation to region. For this experiment milk samples feed samples and a total of 60 (20 of each genotype) dairy cows of the genotypes of Pabna, Local and Cross bred were selected. Among t...

Two way analysis of variance in duplicate were used to assess the degradability of rice straw with triple super phosphate (TSP: Ca (H2PO4)2.CaSO4.2H20) as a source of phosphorous (P) at six levels (0, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 12 g/kg) for each of the five different incubation times (0, 6, 12, 24 and 48 h). The effects of P (TSP) levels and time were signific...

The present study was conducted at Dairy farm of Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Dhaka and Sathia Upazila of Pabna to investigate the milk composition in relation to region. For this experiment milk samples feed samples and a total of 60 (20 of each genotype) dairy cows of the genotypes of Pabna, Local and Cross bred were selected. Among t...

L,iver fluke i,fections in herbivores are common and have a great economic importance in rnany countries, including Bangladesh. This study was conclucted at kurigram district of Bangladesh to deterrrine the prevalence of liver fluke in ruminants of different species, age groups, month and scason of a syear. T'he data were collected during tlie peri...

A comparatrve study was carried out among two patent drugs (iverrnectin, and benzyl benzoate) and herbal drug (neem soiution) with the objectives of determining their efficacy against ectopar"asitic infestaion of goats. This study was conducted for a period of 28 days. Ticks were counted within a rnarkable area on l't day of treatment and tick infe...

A comparatrve study was carried out among two patent drugs (iverrnectin, and benzyl benzoate) and herbal drug (neem soiution) with the objectives of determining their efficacy against ectopar"asitic infestaion of goats. This study was conducted for a period of 28 days. Ticks were counted within a rnarkable area on l't day of treatment and tick infe...

ABSTRACT An investigation was undertaken to determine the general clinical prevalence and comparative prevalence of diseases and disorders in cattle and goats at the Upazilla Veterinary Hospital (UVH), Ulipur under Kurigram district during mid October to mid December, 2008. Total animals were 463, among them cattle were 348 and goats were 115. Diag...