Poultry meat quality starts with an intestinally robust feed formula

A study published on 1 October examines how diet can simultaneously affect broiler performance and technological attributes of the meat. Five diets were compared in 300 birds: a maize-based diet, two diets in which rice bran replaced 10% or 20% of the maize, and both of those formulations supplemented with 250 mg/kg of xylo-oligosaccharides (XOS). XOS are oligosaccharides used as prebiotics; they are not a general substitute for a balanced formulation.