SACCHARINA AND ZEOLITE IN BROILER FEEDING

Four hundred and twenty broilers of both sexes of 7 and 49 day of age of the E-24 hybrid were used and distributed according to a completely randomized design into two treatments 10 % of Saccharina and 10 Sb Sa ccharina + 5 % of zeolite. The consumption of traditional feeds (3606 and 3418 g/bird) differed between treatments as well as the live weigh t gain (1750 and 1873 g/bird), the conversion (2.04 and 1.82) and the apparent dry matter (82 and 88 %) and nitrogen (75 and 81 %) retention s. The results obtained when combining those Cuban products show the p ossibility of improving the productive performance of broilers and red ucing cereals in feed formulas.