The Feed Digestibility of Quails as Affected by Administration of Encapsulated Probiotic Product

Abstract

Probiotic encapsulation process is an effort to protect probiotics from environmental stress. The best encapsulate material that has been shown to protect probiotics is maltodextrin.Then the probiotics encapsulation ( proencaps) needs to be consumed to the animals to determine their effects on the feed digestibility. The influence of this proencaps preparation on the feed digestibility of quails was evaluated in a 28 days trial. A fully randomized design was used to determine four experimental treatments that was standard feed, standard feed with 5. 25×108 cells/ml probiotics, standard feed with 5.25×108 cells/ml proencaps and standard feed with 2.45 ×109 cells/ ml proencaps. The results showed that adding proencaps did not significantly increase feed consumption but it significantly alter dry matter digestibility, organic matter digestibility, egg productions and feed efficiency by 6.75% , 6.07% , 14.72% , and 7.67% respectively. In conclusion, proencaps may be applied as a feed additive for quail to increase feed digestibility and egg production