Polyherbal formulas in lamb feeding to improve productive performance
Abstract
The objective of this review of scientific publications is to identify the commercial polyherbal additives available for finishing lambs and to evaluate the productive changes when using them. A systematic search of scientific articles was carried out in the PubMed, Web of Science and Science Direct search engines using the keywords lamb, growth performance, polyherbals and feed plant additives. To include the articles, they went through a selection process seeking to evaluate finishing lambs, include commercial polyherbal formulas in the rations, be published in journals indexed in JCR, Web of Science and Scimago Journal Rank and were written in English. A report of 6 trademarked polyherbal mixtures was found, which averaged an increase in daily weight gain of 10.86% when they are included in the rations.
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