Possibilities of inclusion of saccharomyces cerevisiae as replacement for fish meal or poultry meat by-product in broiler chicken diet

Abstract

The aim of this experimental work was to evaluation of efficiency of dietary inclusion of SCY as replacement for fish meal or poultry meat by – product in broiler diet. A completely randomized design with five treatments, each with three replication of twelve chicks each was conducted from 7-49 day of age to investigate the effects of Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast (SCY) as replacement with fish meal or poultry by – product protein on broiler performance. Treatments include: 1 control group 2 and 3: yeast in replace with 40 and 60 percent of fish meal protein 4and 5: yeast in replace with 40 and 60 percent of poultry by-product protein. Inclusion of SCY as fish meal replacement in two levels (treatment 2 or 3) didn’t have any negative effect on feed intake, weight gain or feed conversion ratio. Also dietary inclusion of SCY as replacement of poultry meat by-product (40% of poultry meat by-product proportion in diet) didn’t have any negative effect on performance. Only inclusion of 60% SCY as replacement for poultry meat by product had significant negative effect on performance includes feed intake, weight gain and feed conversion ratio (P<0.05).The results of this study indicated the use of SCY with 60 percent replacement of fish meal protein and poultry by-product protein can improve meat quality and broilers performance.