Table 8.

The effect of pelleted two-stage fermented feeds on crop and cecum pH value and rectum microflora in broiler¹ (Trial 2).

	Control	Fermented feed2		SEM	P-value
		BBC	PBBC
pH value
Crop	4.85	4.78	4.83	0.10	0.9155
Cecum	6.33b	6.98a	6.57a,b	0.17	0.0459
Rectum microflora, log cfu/g
Total bacterial count	6.96	7.12	7.22	0.20	0.6181
Total anaerobic plate count	7.78	7.96	7.72	0.16	0.6684
E. coli	6.72	6.88	6.97	0.23	0.7032
Total lactic acid bacteria	8.11	8.25	8.09	0.18	0.8811

¹Data are means of 4 pens of broilers, each pen was used 2 broilers.

²BBC: Bacillus subtilis var. natto N21 + Bacillus coagulans L12 fermented feed; PBBC: BBC was dried by oven at 65°C for 7.5 h, and then pelleted.

^a,bMeans in the same row with different superscripts are significantly different (P < 0.05).