RESULTSThe effects of dietary treatments on chick performancefrom d 1 to 35 are presented in Table 1. Consumptionof contaminated feed resulted in significant reductionin BW gain (9.52%) as compared to the control diet.However, contaminated diet supplemented with E-GMsignificantly countered (8.84%) the growth-depressingeffects of the contaminated diet. Feeding the contaminated diet also resulted in significant reduction in feedintake (7.11%) and poorer feed efficiency (2.3%). Further,supplementation of E-GM to the contaminated diet effectively improved feed intake (5.06%) and feed efficiency (3.25%). Chickens fed control diet with E-GMperformed significantly better (3.48%) than those on thebasal diet alone.The responses of the relative weights of liver, kidneyand gizzard, and serum protein and cholesterol concentrations to the different dietary treatments are summarized in Table 2. Consumption of the contaminated dietincreased the relative weights of liver (24.9%) and gizzard (12.0%) compared to the control diet, whereas relative weight of kidney, total protein concentration, andcholesterol concentration remained unaltered. E-GMsupplementation to the contaminated diet did not significantly diminish the effects of toxins on the relativeweights of liver and gizzard.The effects of different dietary treatments on serumenzyme activities and urea nitrogen are shown in Table3. When compared with controls, feeding the naturallycontaminated diet resulted in a significant increase inserum GGT activity (8.06%) and decreases in serum AST(11.47%) and ALT (20.8%) activities at 21 d of age; however, increased GGT activity (9.63%) was observed when compared to controls at 35 d of age. Supplementationof E-GM to the contaminated diet did not significantlyimprove the serum enzyme activities. Feeding a dietthat was naturally contaminated significantly decreasedurea nitrogen at 21 d (4.68%) and 35 d (24.25%) of age.E-GM supplementation to the contaminated diet significantly raised the urea nitrogen concentration(14.37%) at 35 d of age.Data presented in Table 4 indicate the effects of dietarytreatments on hematological values at 21 and 35 d ofage. Consumption of contaminated feed significantlydecreased hematocrit values (2.7%), whereas TEC andHb values were unaltered. E-GM supplementation tothe contaminated diet improved the hematocrit valuesat 21 d of age (3.7%), but no significant improvementwas observed at 35 d of age.