The impacts of organic acid and essential oil supplementations to diets on the microbiological quality of chicken carcasses

Aksit M., Goksoy E., Kok F., Ozdemir D., Ozdogan M.

ARCHIV FUR GEFLUGELKUNDE, cilt.70, sa.4, ss.168-173, 2006 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 70 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2006
  • Dergi Adı: ARCHIV FUR GEFLUGELKUNDE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.168-173
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: broiler, nutrition, organic acid, essential oil, microbiological, quality, chicken carcass, SALMONELLA-ENTERITIDIS, LISTERIA-MONOCYTOGENES, ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY, BROILER-CHICKENS, PROPIONIC-ACID, FATTY-ACIDS, PERFORMANCES, BACTERIA, THYME, FEED
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

This study was conducted to determine the effects of organic acid combination (for each kg of the diet, 200 mg lactic acid, 250 mg formic acid, and 80 mg propionic acid) or essential oil (for each kg of the diet 15 mg Origanum onites) supplementation on the microbiological quality of broiler chickens. In this study, a total of 800 broiler chickens were divided into four groups as control, organic acid supplemented group, essential oil supplemented group, and essential oil and organic acid supplemented group. At the end of a- 42 day of growth period, for microbiological analyses 20 birds from each group were randomly chosen. Then chickens were slaughtered and microbiological analysis, including determination of Total Viable Count (TVC), the numbers of coliforms, Enterohacteriaceae and Stapylococci/Micrococci were carried out on the neck skin of carcasses. In addition, the incidence of Salmonella spp. on the carcasses for each group was determined.