This study was carried out to evaluate the performance and characteristics of carcass of broiler chickens fed diets with reduced levels of CP, available P (aP) and Ca, supplemented with phytase and amino acids. The growth phases evaluated were: Phase1, 1 - 21 days old, phase 2, 22 - 42 days old. A completely randomized design was used, with the treatments constituted of five nutritional plans (NP), with six replicates of 25 birds each. The nutritional plans were: NP1 - basal ration (21.4% CP - phase 1) + basal ration (19.3% CP - phase 2); NP2 = basal ration (phase 1) + ration with 18% CP (phase 2); NP3 = basal ration (phase 1) + ration with 16% CP (phase 2); NP4 = ration with 19% CP (phase 1) + ration with 16% CP (phase 2) and NP5 = ration with 17% CP (phase 1) + ration with 16% CP (phase 2). Except for basal ration, it was reduced the level of aP for 0.34% and 0.30% in the phases 1 an 2, respectively, and Ca to 0.80 and 0.70% in the phases 1 and 2, respectively , and in theses diets were added 500 FTU of phytase/ kg of ration. The NP4 and NP5 affected the bird performance. The bird fed NP2 and NP3 showed performance similar to those which was fed NP1, while birds that were fed PN4 and PN5 remained unchanged. The carcass and breast yield were not influenced by the nutritional plans. The birds fed basal diets in the two rearing phases (NP1) showed higher yield of thigh + drumstick. There was increase of the abdominal fat when the birds were fed NP3, 4 and 5. In conclusion, is possible to reduce the protein of the ration up to 16% in the phase 2, supplemented with phytase and amino acids, since the ration of the phase 1 be formulated with recommended nutritional levels.
carcass characteristics; enzyme; nutrition levels; performance
