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

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