Improving the quality of broiler chicken meat without the use of antibiotics

Abstract

Abstract The article presents impact study results of probiotic feed additives “Laktumin-1” and “Laktuvet-1” on growth, productive characteristics of broiler chickens of the “Cobb-500” cross and quality their meat. Study of meat quality and productivity of the chickens raised by technology without the use of antibiotics on the basis of experimental vivarium of Volga Region Research Institute of Manufacture and Processing of Meat-And-Milk Production was carried out in October 2020. The chickens were divided into three groups of one hundred chicks each and were raised up to 37 days of age. As a result of the studies, it was found that from the first ten-day periodof the experiment, broiler chickens receiving “Lactumin-1” and “Laktuvet-1” surpassed the analogs of the control group in live weight. In the experimental meat samples taken from their pectoral muscles, protein content was higher than in the control group.