Evaluation of the Anti-Coccidial Effect of Cashew Oil and/or Toltrazuril in Chickens Experimentally Infected with Eimeria tenella
Evaluation of the Anti-Coccidial Effect of Cashew Oil and/or Toltrazuril in Chickens Experimentally Infected with Eimeria tenella
Kamal Ahmed El-Shazly1, Amira Abd El-Latif1, Nagwa Elhawary2, Asmaa F. Alswaf1, Foad Farrag3, Samy Sayed4, Mohamed El-Sharnouby5 and Mustafa Shukry6*
ABSTRACT
This research defined assessed the therapeutic effect of cashew oil, toltrazuril, and their combination to broiler chickens experimentally induced cecal coccidiosis. For this study, divided randomly one hundred broiler chicks at 15th-day old into equal five groups (20 each). kept G1 as control negative; G2, non-treated infected; G3, infected treated with cashew oil (1.5ml/liter drinking water); G4, infected treated with toltrazuril (2.5ml/liter drinking water); G5, infected treated with a mixture of cashew oil at a dose of 1ml and toltrazuril 1.25ml/liter drinking water. On the 15th the oocysts of the Eimeria tenella parasite were implanted orally into all but the negative control groups. According to the current findings, G2 demonstrated a significant increase in feed conversion rate, oocysts count, lesion score, mortality rate, count total leucocytic, ALP, ALT, AST, total bilirubin, creatinine, urea, uric acid, and MDA level, the body weight significally reduction, weight gain in the body, feed consumption, hematological parameters, lymphocytes%, cholesterol level, and Catalase enzyme activity. These results followed the histopathological findings. Treatment with the tested drugs improved all the tested parameters. Still, the control of coccidiosis caused by Eimeria tenell is highly effective by combination of cashew oil and toltrazuril.
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