Journal of Kerbala for Agricultural Sciences

    As the field experiment designed to study the replacement of wheat fermented with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Iraqi probiotic and rumen liquor with urea partially or completely replace corn in diets on the productive performance of broiler chickens as well as digest it conducted a second test after the end of the second field experiment. In this experiment, A 450 chicks were used and distributed over 10 treatments each with three replicates (15 chicks for replicate) treatments are: T1 and T2 partial and complete replacing of wheat without urea instead of corn, respectively (controls); T3 and T4 partial and complete replacing of wheat with urea instead of corn, respectively (controls); T5 and T6 partial and complete replacing of wheat fermented by Saccharomyces cerevisiae with urea instead of corn, respectively; T7 and T8  partial and complete replacing of wheat fermented by Iraqi probiotic with urea instead of corn, respectively; T9 and T10 partial and complete  replacing of wheat fermented by rumen liquor with urea instead of corn, respectively. The current studies included the following results: The results showed that there were significant increases in final live body weight, total weight gain of T5, and accumulative feed intake for the T6 group, while T10 recorded the best conversion ratio, also T9 and T10 recorded the best economic figure.

Experiment was carried out in poultry farm of o the Department of Animal resources, Faculty of Agriculture at University of Kufa during the period from 8/13/2014 to 9/17/2014, to investigate the effect of wheat fermented by S. cerevisiae, Iraqi probiotic and rumen liquor instead of corn on some blood parameters. A total of 360 unsexed one-day broiler chicks (Ross-308) were randomly distributed into eight equal treatments in three replicates  (15 chicks/replicate). The treatments were: T1 and T2 controls  with and without antibiotic, respectively; T3 and T4  partial and complete  replacing of wheat fermented by S. cerevisiae in steady of corn; T5 and T6  partial and complete  replacing of wheat fermented by Iraqi probiotic in steady of corn; T7 and T8  partial and complete  replacing of wheat fermented by rumen liquor in steady of corn. The results indicated that replacing partial and complete wheat fermented by S. cerevisiae, Iraqi probiotic and rumen liquor were significantly (P<0.05) in hemoglobin, red blood cells, serum phosphorus, calcium, glucose and total protein. Significant increase (P<0.05) in these parameters in T8 as compared with other. All treated treatments showed a significant (P<0.05) decrease in cholesterol level as compared with control treatments.