Jessil Ray C. Aguilar, Kent O. Florentino Rommel Vincent D. Manderico (February 2008)
Philippine Science High School Western Visayas Campus – Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PSHS WVC), Brgy. Bito-on, Jaro, Iloilo City 5000, Philippines
ABSTRACT
Through the years, sugarcane has been reported to have various bioactive and healthy components. It has antioxidative properties antimutagenicity and recent study shows that it has immunostimulating and growth-promoting effects on chickens.
This study explores the growth-promoting effects of sugarcane extracts at various fermentation periods. Furthermore, this study also dealt with the effect of the extracts on the bacterial count of E. Coli in the Fecal matter of broiler chickens
Chickens were fed wit sugarcane extracts throughout the study, weight measurement was done every 6 days and bacterial count of E. Coli was done at the 15th, 23rd, and 31st day of the study.
Results for the first (6th day), second (12th day), third (18th day), fourth (24th day) and fifth (30th day) weight measurements showed that the highest value for the weight gain is in the 5-day fermented SCE set-up with values 108.5267g, 349. 9433g , 722.6600g, 1064.3267g and 1454.0950g respectively.
Result for the first (15th day) and second (23rd day) bacterial counts showed that the highest value for the number CFUs is in the Unfermented SCE set-up with values 1.392 x 106 CFUs and 9.9247 x 105 CFUs respectively. Meanwhile, results for the third or final (31st day) bacterial count showed that the highest value for the number of CFUs is in the 2-day fermented SCE set-up with a value of 2.30 x 105.
There was a significance found in the weight difference if the chickens in the first weight measurement. The succeeding weight measurements showed insignificant results. The First, second, and the third bacterial plate counts also yielded insignificant results.