Impacts of Probiotic and Dietary Lamtoro Leaf Meal on the Growth Performance, Digestibility and Small Intestinal Morphometry of Kampung Chicken

Abstract

The present research aims to elucidate the interaction between the influence of Probiotic inclusion in drinking water and Lamtoro leaf meal (LLM) as an additional dietary fiber, which may act as a prebiotic.The research used 200 one-day-old chickens with a mean body weight of 25.8±1.36g/head.Based on a completely randomized design, the chickens were divided into 5 treatment groups (P0-negative control; P1-P1-positive control; P2-0.3%Probiotic; P3-0.6% Probiotic; P4-0.9% Probiotic) 4 replications with 5 chicks.Performances (body weight gain, feed intake, crude protein and fiber intakes), gross-morphometric indices of small intestine and histo-morphometric indices of ileum were measured.Along the experiment, there is no different response between the group fed basal diet (P0) and the group fed additional 3% LLM (P1).Along the 1st five weeks, the intakes of diet, crude protein and crude fiber were not significantly different among the five treatment groups.Along the 2nd five weeks, probiotic inclusion increased feed intake significantly.In line, probiotic inclusion significantly increased both the apparent digestibility of crude protein and crude fiber.Calculated FCR along the 1st and 2nd five weeks were significantly improved with increasing the level of probiotic inclusion.Moreover, probiotic inclusion also affected significantly to increase gross and histo-morphometric indices of the Ileum.In conclusion, the current research suggests that probiotic inclusion in drinking water and addition of 3% LLM as additional fiber resulted in a beneficial synergistic impact on significant improving the performance of Kampung chicken and absorption processes in small intestine.

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