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Effect of probiotic preparations (EM) on productive characteristics, carcass composition, and microbial contamination
Kamil Stęczny1, Dariusz Kokoszyński1
1Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Abstract:
This experiment evaluated the effect of Pro-Biotyk (Em-15) and EMFarma™ probiotics on body weight, feed intake and conversion, carcass traits, and microbial contamination in a poultry house. The probiotic preparations caused a nonsignificant increase in body weight (42 days), feed intake, and feed conversion ratio (1-42 days) and a nonsignificant decrease in chicken mortality from 4 weeks of rearing. Chickens exposed to probiotics did not differ significantly in preslaughter body weight, carcass weight, dressing percentage, and the content of carcass components. The carcasses from experimental chickens had a lower percentage of breast muscle, leg muscle, abdominal fat, and neck, as well as a higher percentage of skin with subcutaneous fat, wings, and remainder of carcasses compared with the carcasses from control birds. The probiotic preparations used in this study were highly effective as auxiliary disinfectants.
