Herbs and Spices for Animal Livestock

Not only having benefit use for human health, many research said about benefit use of herbs and spices for animal livestock. Start with the definition about livestockbase on information that I got from the website of wisegeek.com, livestock is an umbrella term used for domesticated animals raised in an agricultural environment, with the intent of providing food, textiles, labor, or fertilizer to their owners. Common examples are horses, pigs, goats, cows, sheep, and poultry although numerous other semi-wild animals including reindeer, yaks, camels, and emus could also be considered livestock.  

If the humans can enjoy spices so why not animals livestock as well? Its nice words that make me interest to know more what benefit use of herbs and spices for animal livestock which I got from the website of Conversation Magazine at conservationmagazine.org.

According to the study by Newcastle University research student Mohammad Mehedi Hasan and Dr Abdul Shakoor Chaudhry, benefit use of herbs and spices such as coriander and turmeric that usually used in flavour curries by human in the cooking recipes, coriander and turmericcan reduce the amount of methane which produced by sheep. Spices also help an animal digest its food more efficiently which could reduce the amount of feed needed. Coriander was the most efficient spice in the experiment, followed by tumericand then cinnamon. 

Spices and the battle of bird flu? According the information that I got from the website of news.nationalgeographic.com, it is about star anise as part of Chinese cuisine's five-spice powder which has know as a licorice-flavored spice that's long been a staple on Asian tables may now be a major weapon against global influenza.

Source from the website of chinadaily.com.cn, with the spread of bird flu prompting fears of an epidemic or even pandemic that could kill humans by the million, a Chinese spice hitherto associated with the pleasures of aperitifs has suddenly assumed key medical significance. For the fruit known as star anisehas an ingredient vital to a drug to fight the strain of avian flu that has already killed more than 60 people in Asia. How spices can help livestock in battle of bird flu? Well, you can click the link information below at Shvoong in bahasa according to the result researchof Indonesia scientist.

How spices can help livestock in battle of bird flu?

http://id.shvoong.com/exact-sciences/veterinary/2347224-manfaat-jamu-ternak-untuk-hewan/