Impacts of circumin and copper acetate on cecal microbiota in broilers

Recently interest in the use of natural feed additives as an alternative to antimicrobials in the poultry industry has increased. One of the most studied groups are polyphenolic compounds, given their advantages over other types of additives and their easy potentiation of effects when complexes are formed with metal ions. In this study, we evaluated the impact of dietary supplementation of Copper Acetate (CA), Curcumin (CR), and their combination (CA-CR) on cecal microbiota composition in broiler chickens.