Effects of dietary probiotic, prebiotic and butyric acid glycerides on performance and serum composition in broiler chickens K. Taherpour1, H. Moravej1*, M.Shivazad1, M. Adibmoradi2 and B.Yakhchali3 1
Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran,Karaj, Iran. Department of Basic science, Faculty of veterinary medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. 3 National Institutes for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB). Tehran, Iran.
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Accepted 5 March, 2009
An experiment on ROSS 308 male broilers was conducted to evaluate probiotic (Primalac), prebiotic (Fermacto) and butyric acid glycerides (Baby C4) on broiler performance and serum composition. Seven hundred and four day-old broilers were randomly distributed in a 2 2 2 factorial arrangement with two levels of probiotic, prebiotic and butyric acid glycerides. Eight treatments with four replicates each with 22 birds per pen were used. Three-way interaction between dietary treatments were observed for final body weight (P
