Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXII, Issue 2
Written by Ioan CUSTURĂ, Minodora TUDORACHE, Ilie VAN, Monica Paula MARIN, Andrei MARMANDIU, Emanuel Sergiu PANĂ
Same as the whole European poultry industry Romanian poultry industry is facing worldwide competition and so Romanian poultry industry had to produce a product better than in other countries. This prospect depends on several factors, among them being the use of probiotics as an alternative to antibiotic growth promoters. That is precisely why this paper is aiming to present the influence of probiotics on the production performance in broilers reared in industrial system. The study was conducted over the course of five consecutive growth series, using the three-phase feeding technology on two experimental batches - batch A that received feed containing probiotics in commercial quantity of 550 grams per ton of feed and batch B that received conventional feed without probiotic. The values obtained at 42 days are demonstrating the beneficial effect of pro-biotic products in all used feed recipes as body weight (2908.20 ± 53.30 g), mortality (1.912 ± 0.01 %) and specific consumption (1596.98 ± 38.98 g/kg) are better in batch A which is why probiotics can be used successfully to enhance production performances of industrial produced broilers.
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