USE OF DRIED GUAVA BY-PRODUCT AND ENZYME COMPLEX IN BROILER CHICKEN FEEDING.
Agroindustrial waste. Meat quality. Performance
The use of dehydrated guava by-product in partial replacement of corn, with or without enzymatic complex, in broiler chicken feed was evaluated. 360 one-day-old Ross chicks, average weight of 37g between males and females, were distributed in 36 pens. A completely randomized experimental design was used, and this experimental design will be a 3x2 factorial arrangement (0, 5 and 10% of guava by-product, with and without enzymatic complex), totaling six treatments and six repetitions of 10 birds per unit experimental, as follows: T1: Control: reference ration, based on corn and soy bran; T2: Inclusion of 5% guava by-product replacing corn; T3: Inclusion of 10% guava by-product replacing corn; T4: reference feed, based on corn and soy bran with enzymatic complex; T5: Inclusion of 5% of guava by-product replacing corn with addition of enzymatic complex; T6: Inclusion of 10% guava by-product replacing corn with addition of enzyme complex. The animals had water and food consumption ad libitum throughout the experimental period. At 42 days of age, the birds were slaughtered and later analyzes were carried out for productive performance, economic viability, carcass and organ yield, meat quality parameters (color, pH, weight loss due to cooking and dripping, shear force) and evaluation morphometry of the parts of the intestine). The inclusion levels of SGD with addition of enzyme complex influenced (P<0.05) feed conversion (1-21; 36-42 days), viscera weights (liver and abdominal fat), breast and wing yields, in quality parameters (shear strength and staining) and villus:crypt ratio.