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ArticleItem Open Access Early Nutrition and Its Importance in Poultry: A Review(2016-09) Prabakar, Govinthasamy; Pavulraj, Selvaraj; Shanmuganathan, Subramaniyan; Kirubakaran, Arumugam; Mohana, Nandan; TANUVASFirst few weeks of life after hatching are very important in poultry. Immediate access of chicks to caloric nutrients enhances growth rate, yolk utilization, gastro-intestinal development, immune system stimulation etc. Therefore, overall performance of broilers can be increased. However, early feeding is not practised routinely due to practical aspects like differences in hatching period of different chicks of same batch and time consideration of sorting, sexing and transport of chicks. Further, early feeding may incur additional cost. Studies revealed that early feeding has favourable effect on poultry production by improving yolk utilization, growth rate, development of digestive system and immune system which result in superior performance at marketing with good profit and extra cost of early feeding can be compensated.ArticleItem Open Access Phytobiotics: Could the Greens Inflate the Poultry Production(2016) Prabakar, Govinthasamy; Gopi, Marappan; Karthik, Kumarakurubaran; TANUVASThe ever increasing consumers awareness and their concern over the presence of antibiotic residues in poultry products necessitate lookingforan alternativetoantibioticgrowth promoters.Among the numerousalternatives like probiotics, prebiotics, acidifiers, the plant origin compound attracts more interest than else. The phytochemicals consists ofvarious natural products that may be nutritional, non—nutritiona| oranti—nutritional in nature. These phyto—chemicalsalso actasan antibacterial,antivira|,antifunga|,antio>