Essay On Seaweed Feed Supplements In Mono-Gastric Animal Production

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Scientific Writing and Review (AESC30010)
2015-2016
Literature Review Project

Seaweed Feed Supplements in Mono-gastric Animal Production
Name: McGowan, Deirdre
Student Number: 15205665
Degree Programme: Animal Science

FOR USE BY MODULE CORRDINATOR Allocation of Marks (out of 100) Actual Mark
THOUGHT (Scientific standard and soundness of review, critical understanding, conclusions) 40
STRUCTURE (structure of review and sections, clarity, logical flow, comprehensiveness of review) 20
STYLE (Presentation, layout, proof-reading) 20
Relevance and use of additional references 20
Total 100 COMMENTS:

Table of Contents
1 Scientific Summary: 2
2 Public Media Summary: 2
3 Introduction: 2
4 Methods And Materials: 3
4.1 Animals used: 3
4.2 Analysis of small-intestinal histology: 3
4.3 Analysis of Gut Microflora 4
4.4 Growth performance 4
5 Results 4
5.1 …show more content…

(Kulshreshtha, et al., 2014). Prebiotics are known to aid the establishment of beneficial bacteria found in the gut by supplying a substrate to the microflora. Health-promoting oligosaccharides that have come from seaweed have shown that they can improve the level of health and productivity in layer hens (Kulshreshtha, et al., 2014). The seaweed extract that contains laminarin and fucoidan was beneficial in the feeding of pigs as it too also affected the gut microflora as it reduced the levels of enterobacteriaceae populations causing less infections and illness (Leonard, et al., 2011).
The main aim of this review was to examine how the addition of seaweed extracts to the diet of the mono-gastric animals such as hens and pigs would affect the different factors of the animals such as the gut microflora, the productivity and growth of the animals. This was done by carrying out many different experiments and treatments to see if the seaweed extract had a significant effect on the

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