Two experimental assays were carried out to evaluate the effect of the soybean oil and enzymatic complex addition in corn and soybean meal based diets on the broilers performance and nutrients digestibility. In the experiment 1, 960 broiler chickens, unsexed, received the treatments into 4 x 2 factorial scheme (four levels of soybean oil addition, 0; 2.5; 5.0 and 7.5%, with or without addition of a enzymatic complex with amylase, xylanase and protease) in four replicates of 30 chickens each, from 1 to 21 days of age. After the first phase, the broilers fed a standard diet until 42 days of age to evaluate a possible residual effect of the treatments on the performance from 22 to 42 days old. At the 21 days of age, 90 chickens (three male and two female of each replicate) were transfered to metabolism room (experiment 2), were the chickens received the same experimental diets to determination of the energetic values and dry matter and ether extract digestibility coefficients. The results shown no effect of the enzymatic complex addition nor interaction of the oil levels and enzyme supplementation on the broilers performance. The energetic value of the diets enhanced in 2.3% with the oil addition, without enzyme supplementation effect. The oil level of the 2.33% allowed a maximum digestibility of the ether extract. It was concluded that oil addition in the diet result in a better broilers performance and feed conversion reached the plateau in the 2.18% oil level.
broilers performance; digestibility; enzymes; metabolizable energy
