Whats the Application of Eucommia ulmoides Extract in livestock production?
1.Application of Eucommia ulmoidesExtract in Pig production
The addition of Eucommia ulmoides Extract in pig diet can significantly improve growth performance, which may reduce the diarrhea rate of pigs by regulating intestinal flora, protecting intestinal integrity and improving immune ability. Eucommia ulmoides can also improve pork quality and pork flavor. Li Wantao et al. Showed that adding 0.3% Eucommia ulmoides extract to the diet could improve the average daily gain, pork marbling score, drip loss and intramuscular fat content of finishing pigs.. Chlorogenic acid is one of the main active components of Eucommia ulmoides. The research in piglet production is shown in Table 1. Its suitable addition amount is 1000 mg / kg, indicating that Eucommia ulmoides Extract has great potential in improving pig growth performance, improving pork quality and reducing piglet diarrhea rate.
2.Application of Eucommia ulmoides in chicken production
Adding Eucommia ulmoides Extract into chicken diet can improve chicken intestinal morphology, meat color and tenderness, so as to improve its production performance and slaughter performance. Adding 300 mg / kg Eucommia ulmoides extract to the diet of yellow feather broilers can effectively improve its growth performance, antioxidant capacity and immune function. Huang Lin et al. Found that dietary supplement of Eucommia ulmoides extract can effectively improve the growth performance, nutrient digestibility and intestinal morphology of broiler duodenum. Duan Junhong and other experiments showed that adding 1% Eucommia ulmoides powder to the diet could improve the average daily gain, brightness and yellowness of meat color of black bone hybrid chicken, and significantly reduce the feed gain ratio, cooking loss and dripping loss of chicken. Wang Rui et al. Added 2 g / kg Eucommia ulmoides extract to Gushi chicken feed can significantly improve its growth rate and the content of crude protein and crude fat in muscle. Zhao et al. Found that adding 1000 mg / kg Eucommia ulmoides extract rich in chlorogenic acid to the diet could increase the average daily gain of broilers, the pH of Heat Stressed Broilers, the feed conversion rate, drip loss, cooking loss, brightness, malondialdehyde and carbonyl content, and the contents of stearic acid and saturated fatty acid in breast meat, It also alleviated the adverse effects of heat stress on the growth performance and meat quality of broilers, and improved the oxidative stability and fatty acid composition of broilers under heat stress. Huang Tao et al. Also found that Eucommia chlorogenic acid in broiler diet can improve its production performance, muscle tenderness and meat color, significantly reduce the feed consumption weight gain ratio, significantly improve muscle tenderness and reduce the shear force. These results show that adding Eucommia ulmoides into chicken diet has high application value. How to improve the utilization efficiency and the most beneficial addition of Eucommia ulmoides in chicken production need to be further studied and discussed.
3.Application of Eucommia ulmoides in other animal production
Eucommia ulmoides Extract can also improve the production performance of sheep, rabbits, shrimp, fish and other animals. Yang Gaiqing and other experiments showed that feeding the diet containing 10% Eucommia ulmoides leaves could increase the feed intake of sheep to a certain extent, improve their daily gain and live weight before slaughter, and improve the utilization rate of energy and nitrogen of sheep. The diet containing 20% Eucommia ulmoides leaves reduced the utilization rate of energy and nitrogen of sheep. Liu et al. Found that adding 10 g / kg Eucommia ulmoides leaf polyphenol extract to lamb diet can improve glutathione peroxidase activity in lamb liver and reduce MDA content in serum and liver. Adding 100 ~ 300 mg / kg Eucommia ulmoides leaf extract to the diet can not only increase the average daily gain and average daily feed intake of meat rabbits, but also significantly increase the contents of total protein, albumin, globulin and immunoglobulin A in serum of meat rabbits, and increase the activities of SOD and GSH PX in serum of meat rabbits. The effect of adding 200 mg / kg is the best. Li Juntao and others fed Litopenaeus vannamei a diet supplemented with eucommia ulmoides extract and bile acid, and the weight gain rate was significantly improved. Adding 2.5%, 5.0% and 7.5% Eucommia ulmoides leaf powder to the basic diet of herring, it was found that the relative weight gain rate and fullness of herring increased and the feed coefficient decreased in the group of adding 7.5% Eucommia ulmoides leaf powder. The above results show that Eucommia ulmoides can effectively improve the production performance of sheep, rabbits and other animals, but there are few research reports, and its mechanism still needs to be further studied.
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