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.