Indian Journal of Animal Nutrition

A study on the non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) present in Corn and Soybean was conducted by gas chromatography, which were 7.13 per cent and 11.63 per cent respectively. Based on these findings an appropriate combination of exogenous enzymes consisting of alpha amylase, xylanase, betaglucanase, cellulase and pectinase, was formulated and tested for its activity on the degradation of NSP both in-vitro and in-vivo in Cobb 100 broiler poultry. The in-vitro screening of Corn-Soya diet treated with enzyme showed 68 per cent reduction in NSP. the response in broilers to the enzyme supplementation was evident with almost 45 per cent degradation of faecal NSP against the control birds, which showed approx. 25 per cent degradation. The body weights in enzyme treated group was better with an overall increment of 65g (l.59±0.18) against that of control (1.53±0.17).