Table 6.
Effect of dietary supplementation of probiotic complex on colony forming unit (cfu/g) of microbes in the feces of broiler chicks

Item Diets1
CON PC1 PC2
Lactobacillus (cfu/g) 8.06±0.21b 8.32±0.27ab 8.41±0.14a
Bacillus subtilis (cfu/g) 8.18±0.30 8.07±0.42 8.27±0.31
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (cfu/g) 8.09±0.35b 8.32±0.19ab 8.44±0.18a
E. coli(cfu/g) 6.41±0.41a 6.36±0.42a 5.77±0.30b
CON (basal diet), PC1 (basal diet supplemented with 0.25% of probiotic complex; L. plantarum, 1 × 106, B. subtilis 1 × 106, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae 1 × 106) and PC2 (basal diet supplemented with 0.5% of probiotic complex; L. plantarum, 1 × 106, B. subtilis 1 × 106, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae 1 × 106). a,bindicates the significance difference among the treatment (P<0.05) in response to the dietary supplementation of probiotic complex.