PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL QUALITIES OF CORN WITH DIFFERENT MOISTURE LEVELS SUPPLEMENTED WITH MOLD INHIBITOR

Corn grain is used as the main energy source in poultry diet formulation. The quality of corn easy to deteriorate during storage because insect, fungal, and mycotoxin contamination. Efforts should be made maintain storage. present study aimed evaluate physical chemical different moisture levels supplemented by a mold inhibitor. A total 750 kg was study. commercial inhibitor with dose 0.075%. experimental design 3 x 2 factorial complete randomized design. first factor (ML) (≤10%, 10.0-10.9%; 11.0-11.9%), while second (MI, - or +). Thus, there were six treatment combinations, each comprised five replications. results showed that ML, MI, ML MI interaction significantly (P<0.05 0.001) affected percentage damage fungal but not (P>0.05) level 90 days Except for crude protein content, did affect proximate composition (PC) gross (GE) content corn. dry matter (DM), PC GE MI. content. aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) similar among all treatments. histidine lysine contents, amino acid contents combination. In conclusion, supplementation improved quality, DM, ash, storage; maintained DM reduce AFB1 lysine, corn.&nbsp