INDUSTRIAL SACCHARINA PREPARED WITH CLEAN SUGAR-CANE OR RETURN BAGASSE PITH FOR BROILERS

Three hundred sixty ES-36 chickens of both sexes I were used from 7 to 49 days of age to compare the traditional industrial Saccharina, prep ared from clean sugar cane, to that prepared from return bagasse Pith from the sugar mill tandem, on including them at 10% levels in the con centrates for broilers. An analysis of variance, according to a comple tely randomized design was carried out with 2 treatments (concentrates with 10% of both types of Saccharina) and 6 replicates/treatment. The re was a high viability in the 2 treatments (99 and 100%) and no signi ficant differences were found for liveweight (1679 and 1741 g/bird), f eed consumption (3479 and 3597 g/bird), total conversion (2.23) and tr aditional feed conversion (2.00). The possibility of indistinctly usin g clean sugar cane or return bagasse pith, as basal substrates for the production of Saccharine, without altering broiler performance was de monstrated.