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Background  Intensive poultry production systems depend on chemoprophylaxis with anticoccidial drugs to combat infection. A floor-pen study was conducted to evaluate the anticoccidial effect of  Artemisia annua  and  Foeniculum vulgare  on  Eimeria tenella  infection. Five experimental groups were established: negative control (untreated, unchallenged); positive control (untreated, challenged); a group medicated with 125 ppm lasalocid and challenged; a group medicated with  A. annua  leaf powder at 1.5% in feed and challenged; and a group treated with the mixed oils of  A. annua  and  Foeniculum vulgare  in equal parts, 7.5% in water and challenged. The effects of  A. annua  and oil extract of  A. annua + F. vulgare  on  E. tenella  infection were assessed by clinical signs, mortality, fecal oocyst output, faeces, lesion score, weight gain, and feed conversion.    Results  Clinical signs were noticed only in three chickens from the lasalocid group, six from the  A. annua  group, and nine from the  A. annua + F. vulgare  group, but were present in 19 infected chickens from the positive control group. Bloody diarrhea was registered in only two chickens from  A. annua  group, but in 17 chickens from the positive control group. Mortality also occurred in the positive control group (7/20). Chickens treated with  A. annua  had a significant reduction in faecal oocysts (95.6%;  P  = 0.027) and in lesion score (56.3%;  P  = 0.005) when compared to the positive control. At the end of experiment, chickens treated with  A. annua  leaf powder had the highest body weight gain (68.2 g/day), after the negative control group, and the best feed conversion (1.85) among all experimental groups.    Conclusions  Our results suggest that  A. annua  leaf powder (Aa-p), at 1.5% of the daily diet post-infection, can be a valuable alternative for synthetic coccidiostats, such as lasalocid.

Effects of Artemisia annua and Foeniculum vulgare on chickens highly infected with Eimeria tenella (Phylum Apicomplexa)