A total of 180-day-old broiler chickens (Ross AP strain) were allocated to 4 dietary treatments to evaluate the effects of two sources and levels of selenium and their interaction on carcass characteristics and meat quality in broiler chicken reared under deep litter system in a well-ventilated house with standard management practices. The experiment consisted of 2×2 factorial arrangement with 2 sources of dietary Se [Sodium selenite (SS), and Selenium enriched yeast (SY)] and 2 levels of supplemental Se (low: 0.15 mg/kg, and high: 0.50 mg/kg). Each treatment had 3 replicates of 15 broiler chickens per replicate. Two birds from each replicate were sacrificed to study carcass characteristics (dressed, liver, heart, intestine, breast, thigh, wing, neck, back and giblet weight %) and meat quality (WHC, ERV and TBA value) at 35^th day of age. Findings suggested that adding of 0.5 ppm of selenium enriched yeast supplementation showed significant (p<0.01) difference in WHC percentage, breast weight percentage and dressing percentage, however, TBA value supplemented with sodium selenite was significantly (p<0.01) higher than selenium enriched yeast supplementation.

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