EFFECT OF PROBIOTIC GIVING DURING MAINTENANCE ON HEMATOCRITES, ERITROSITES, AND BLOOD BIOCHEMISTRY POST TRANSPORTATION BROILER

Diding Latipudin, Lovita Adriani, Roostita L. Balia

Abstract
   The research aimed to determine the effect of giving probiotics and which combination of probiotics that gave the best effect on hematocrit profile and broiler erythrocyte after transportation. Probiotics is an additional food or feed additive in the form of microorganisms that provide beneficial effects for health through increasing the balance of microbes in the digestive tract. Chicken broiler used is strain Cobb 398 start phase starter until finisher (1-35 days) as many as one hundred broiler chickens. The experimental study was conducted with Completely Randomized Design (RAL) with five treatments: P0 = (control), P1 = Probiotic (L. plantarum + L. acidophilus), P2 = Probiotics (L. plantarum + T. beigelii), P3 = Probiotics (L. acidophilus + C. humicolus), P4 = Probiotics (T. beigelii + C. humicolus) with four replications. The result of Duncan test analysis showed that P3 gave significant different effect (P<0.05) among all treatments on hematocrit and erythrocyte, and blood biochemistry after transportation. The conclusion is that giving probiotics with combination of bacteria and yeast (L. acidophilus + C. humicolus) can increase the hematocrit profile and broiler erythrocyte after transportation but still in normal range.

Key words: broiler, probiotics, hematocrit, erythrocytes, blood biochemistry, transportation