Luis, E.S. and Sullivan, T.W. and Nelson, L.A. (1982) Nutritional value of proso millet in layer diets. Poultry Science, 61 (6). pp. 1176-1182.
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Two experiments were made with 144, 13-month-old hens and 72, 7-month-old pullets housed in cages and continuing for 10 and 12 weeks, respectively. Nutritional value of the "Dawn" (D) cultivar of proso millet relative to maize and commercial milo was estimated. In each experiment, proso millet was compared with maize and milo on an equal weight basis, either ground or unground (whole), and on a protein equivalent basis. Lucerne meal was either added or omitted in these diets. All diets in each experiment were made isonitrogenous and isocaloric by varying the levels of soya bean meal, cerelose (dextrin-glucose), or fat and solka floc. All millet diets except one that contained dehydrated lucerne meal supported equivalent egg production, egg weight, feed intake, and feed conversion efficiency in both experiments, as compared to the maize and milo diets. Supplementation of the millet diet with 2.5% lucerne meal significantly depressed (P<0.05) egg weight in hens and egg weight and feed conversion efficiency in pullets. Hens and pullets fed on the whole millet diets had slight depressions in egg production but tended to lay larger eggs. Pullets fed on millet diets had bodyweight gains similar to those given the maize diet, but greater, although not significantly so in all cases, than pullets fed on the milo diet. Proso millet D gave yolk colour scores significantly (P<0.05) greater than for milo but less than for maize in both experiments. The specific gravity of eggs from pullets did not differ greatly among diets
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Dep. Agronomy, Panhandle Station, Scottsbluff, Nebr. 6936l, USA. |
| Subjects: | Crop Improvement |
| Divisions: | Millet |
| Depositing User: | Mr B Krishnamurthy |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Aug 2012 03:52 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2012 03:52 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3382/ps.0611176 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/7070 |
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