Performance of meat-type birds fed high fiber soybean based diets supplemented with a multi-enzyme complex of fungal origin
2004
A. Abu | J.U. Igwebuike | Judamat Abu
The effect of dietary supplementation of a commercial multi-enzyme complex (Avizyme 1500 sup(_)) on the growth and economic indices of broiler finishers were investigated. A total of 120 d-old broiler chickens was assigned to four dietary treatments, each having two replicates of 15 birds. Avizyme, a multi-enzyme exogenous enzyme, was incorporated into the finisher diets at inclusion levels of 0 in low fibre diet and in 3 high fibre diets at 0, 1.0 and 2.0 g/Kg diets in diets. The study covered the finisher phase (4-8 week period). Results obtained indicated that incorporation of Avizyme up to 2.0 g/kg diet into broiler finisher diet produced no significant (p0.05) effects on average daily feed intake and feed conversion efficiency of the birds but depressed daily weight gain, as the birds fed control diet and diet containing 1 g/kg Avizyme did best (p0.05). The results of this study showed that the inclusion of 1 g/kg of the enzyme mixture into broiler finisher diet did not show any adverse effect on the performance of the broiler chickens. The 1 g/kg level of inclusion of enzyme in the diet appeared to be most beneficial in view of the overall results obtained.
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