Effect of Baker’s Yeast (Saccharomycew cerevisiae) as Water and Feed Additive on Broiler chickens

ABSTRACT

Poultry occupies a unique position in the Nigerian livestock industry because they solutions to our national meat scarcity is to increase poultry production (Amaefule and Obioha, 2001). The demand for broiler chickens in Nigeria is progressively rising as meat consumer’s interest .is generally shifting from red to white meat (Ndclekwute and Uzoegbu, 2009). However, to meet poultry products requirements of Nigerians, there is the need to expand the industry. This goal according to Babatunde and Hamzat (2005) depends to a large extent on the availably of good quality feed in sufficient quantity and affordable prices that farmers could afford.