THE EFFECT OF PROBIOTIC SUPPLEMENTATION ON MEAT QUALITY AND FEED EFFICIENCY

Lovita Adriani, Tuti Widjastuti

Abstract
   Probiotics is microorganism reported possessing the positive effect on gut morphology and subsequent performance of poultry birds. Therefore, the present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of feed efficiency and meat quality. 100 day old commercial broiler chicks were allocated to 4 treatment groups in a Complete Randomized Design (CRD) and each treatment was replicated 5 times and each replicate was filled 4 chickens. The treatments consisted of fed: T-0 (basal ratio), T-1 (basal ratio with 100% fermented cow milk), T-2 (basal ratio with 50% fermented cow milk + 50 % fermented soy milk) and T-3 (basal feed with 50% fermented cow milk + 25% fermented soy milk + 25% fermented mung bean). There was no significant (P>0.05) effect on feed efficiency. However, it can improve feed efficiency. Meanwhile, all treatments give significant (P<0.05) effect on meat quality. Probiotic supplementation can improve feed efficiency and meat quality on poultry.