Publication: Varying levels of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor l.) grain meal as feed extender for broilers
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2012-10
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Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University - North La Union Campus
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Sorghum grains are potential as feed extender for broilers for it contains 11.30% protein. Hence, this study on different levels of sorghum grain meal (5%, 10% and 15%) as feed extender for broiler was conducted to determine the performance of broilers fed with different levels of sorghum grain meal. This was conducted from November 19, 2011 to December 24, 2011 at Don Mariano Marcos
Memorial State University, North La Union Campus, Bacnotan, La Union. Sixty, two-week-old broiler chicks were randomly distributed into four treatments in three blocks following the RCBD.
Based on the result of the study, broilers fed with different levels from 5% to 15% of sorghum grain meal as feed extender performed comparably with those fed with pure broiler starter mash in terms of final weight, gain in weight, feed consumption, feed conversion ratio and profit above feed, medicine and stock cost.
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Biscarra, D. O. (2012). Varying levels of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor l.) grain meal as feed extender for broilers. [Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis] Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University - North La Union Campus, Sapilang, Bacnotan, La Union. Lakasa ti Sirib, DMMMSU Institutional Repository.