Probiotics as a Friendly Antibiotic Alternative: Assessment of Their Effects on the Health and Productive Performance of Poultry

Antibiotics have been used to maintain the overall health of poultry by increasing production efficiency, promoting growth, and improving intestinal function for more than 50 years. However, they a number side effects, such as antibiotic resistance, gut dysbiosis, destruction beneficial bacteria, potential spread diseases humans. In order address aforementioned issues, lot effort is put into development alternatives. One them use probiotics that can be added feed in increase performance avoid problems. Probiotics are live microorganisms consumed additives or supplements. They gastrointestinal tract benefit host. improve growth performance, bone health, meat eggshell quality. The addition diet also positively affects immune response, microflora, disease resistance. Careful selection probiotic strains utmost importance. This review focuses on significance antibiotic-free alternative way which supplements boosting safeguarding health.