Effect of dietary mannan oligosaccharides and fructo-oligosaccharides on physico-chemical indices, antioxidant and oxidative stability of broiler chicken meat

The objective of this present study was to investigate the potentiality of prebiotics (mannan oligosaccharides-MOS and fructo-oligosaccharides-FOS) in replacement of antibiotic growth promoter and their relationship with physico-chemical indices, antioxidant and oxidative stability and carcass traits of broiler chickens meat. Accordingly, 240 day-old broiler chicks of uniform body weight divided in 6 treatment groups with 5 replicate each (5 × 6 = 30) having 8 birds in each replicate. Six corn based dietary treatments were formulated viz. T 1 (control diet), T 2 (T 1 + Bacitracin methylene di-salicylate @ 0.002%), T 3 (T 1 + 0.1% MOS), T 4 (T 1 + 0.2% MOS), T 5 (T 1 + 0.1% FOS), and T 6 (T 1 + 0.2% FOS). Significant ( p