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Record W4410146375 · doi:10.1007/s11250-025-04466-9

A review on the potential use of eubiotics in non-chicken poultry species

2025· review· en· W4410146375 on OpenAlexaff
Caven Mguvane Mnisi, Felix M Njeri, Anderson N Maina, Paul Kibaba Waliaula, Veronica Cheng, Indibabale Kumalo, Chidozie Freedom Egbu, Elijah G. Kiarie

Bibliographic record

VenueTropical Animal Health and Production · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicAnimal Nutrition and Physiology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
FundersNorth-West University
KeywordsBiotechnologyPoultry farmingBiologySynbioticsBusinessDiversification (marketing strategy)AntimicrobialProbioticMarketingEcology

Abstract

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As the demand for poultry products increases, safe nutritional measures should be implemented to ensure successful diversification of the poultry industry with non-chicken poultry (NCP) species such as quail, turkey, ostrich, waterfowls, and guinea fowls. Thus, this review focuses on the current and future utility of eubiotics in NCP species by outlining the challenges and potential benefits that are associated with their utilization. Eubiotics are a group of feed additives, including probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, organic acids, and essential oils, that are safe and exhibit antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activities, prudent in an era where multi-drug antimicrobial resistance poses a grave threat to human health. Using eubiotics, separately or in combination, in NCP diets could enhance gut health, immune responses, growth performance, and product quality. However, their mechanisms of action are not fully understood, and their synergistic effects are not clearly outlined especially for NCP species. Moreover, inconsistent results have been reported, possibly due to various sources, application methods, production systems, bird types, and variations in rearing sites (macro- and micro-climatic conditions). We postulate that their extensive adoption in diets of NCP species could, in the future, deliver safe, efficient, and sustainable poultry production systems. We conclude that correct application methods, optimal dosages, and understanding of their synergistic actions could ensure alternative poultry systems that would contribute significantly to global food safety and nutrition security.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.012

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.096
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.227 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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