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Biotic feed additives may reduce PSE in poultry meat
Story Date: 1/16/2013
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Source: Michael Fielding, MEATINGPLACE, 1/15/13
Brazilian researchers have found that biotic additives in poultry feed may replace growth promoters while maintaining good meat quality.
Researchers treated commercial broiler chickens with five diets containing probiotics (Bacillus subtilis), prebiotics (mannan oligosaccharide-MOS), synbiotics (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, Bifidobacterium bifidum, MOS and FOS (fructoligosaccharides), Avilamycin or a control treatment (no additives).
Results of the study, “The Effects of Biotic Additives on Growth Performance and Meat Qualities in Broiler Chickens,” published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Poultry Science, suggest that the biotic treatments did not cause significant differences.
They also reported that the broilers fed with biotic diets showed a reduction in PSE (pale, soft and exudative) meat.
They evaluated a variety of parameters, including total weight, daily weight gain, feed intake, viability production efficiency index and yield of carcasses and cuts.
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