SUBSTITUTION OF SORGHUM FOR WHEAT IN DIETS FOR LAYING HENS
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Animal Science
- Vol. 62 (1), 305-306
- https://doi.org/10.4141/cjas82-033
Abstract
The effects of substituting various levels of sorghum for wheat in diets for laying hens were studied. Egg production, egg weight, feed consumption, body weight and hatchability of eggs from Single Comb White Leghorn hens were not affected by the proportion of sorghum in the diet. Key words: Sorghum, wheat, nutrition, egg productionThis publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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