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Study on application of compound probiotics in broiler production

  

  1. (1 College of Life Engineering, Shenyang Institute of Technology, Fushun 113122, China; 2 College of Food Science, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110161, China)
  • Online:2014-09-25 Published:2014-10-11

Abstract: This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of compound probiotics on henhouse environment, growth performance, nutrient digestibility and serum biochemical indices of broilers. Four hundred one\|day\|old female broiler chickens were randomly divided into 4 groups with 4 replicates in each group and 25 chickens per replicate. The chickens in the control group(groupⅠ) were fed with a basal diet, and group Ⅱ, Ⅲ and Ⅳ were fed with the basal diet supplemented with 01%, 02% and 04% compound probiotics, respectively. The results showed as follows: 1) Compared with the control group, the average daily gain of broilers in group Ⅲ was significantly higher(P<005), feed/gain (F/G) and death rate were significantly lower(P<005); 2) The concentrations of NH3 and H2S were significantly reduced in each treatment group(P<005); 3) Compound probiotics could significantly improve the digestibilities of crude protein, Ca and P in broilers(P<005), also increase the concentration of total protein and activities of cholinesterase and α\|amylase in broiler serum. In conclusion, the supplementation of 02% compound probiotics can improve the growth performance, significantly increase the serum indices and nutrient digestbilities of broilers (P<005), also had a better effect on improving the environment of henhouse.

Key words: compound probiotics, broiler, performance, NH3, H2S, nutrient digestibility, serum indices