An experiment was conducted to assess the feeding value of broken rice for ... either conventional control diet or diet containing 2.4, 4.8 or 7.2% broken rice ...
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Indian Journal of Animal Nutrition Snort communication
FEEDING VALUE OF BROKEN RICE FOR JAPANESE QUAIL LAYERS B. K. Swain*, R. N. S. Sundaram, E. B. CSiakurkar and S. B. BarbuddSie ICAR Research Complex for Goa, Ela, Old Goa-403 402, India (Received 23 November, 2005)
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ABSTRACT An experiment was conducted to assess the feeding value of broken rice for laying Japanese quails. Quail layers (96; 10 week old) divided in to four equal groups (3 replicates of 8 birds each) were offered either conventional control diet or diet containing 2.4, 4.8 or 7.2% broken rice (replacing 0, 5, 10 and 15% maize w/w) for 4 months. Egg production was significantly higher (P< 0.05) with significantly (P< 0.05) better feed conversion efficiency and better economics of production in group fed 2.4% rice kani based diet than other dietary treatment. It was concluded that broken rice could substitute maize at 5% level in the diet of laying Japanese quails. (Indian J. Anim. Nutn, 2006, 23(3): 193-195) Key words: Broken rice, Performance, Economics, Japanese quails The broken rice (rice kani) is comparable to maize in crude protein, amino acids and energy contents (Verma et al., 1992) and has been examined for its feeding value in poultry (Shrivastav et al., 1990; Tyagi et al., 1993,1994 and 1995). Another additional advantage is that broken rice is not generally associated with aflatoxin which pose threat to the survivability of poultry and other livestocks (Anon, 2004). Being cheaper than maize, the use of rice kani is likely to reduce the cost of production and has been reported to be an ideal substitute for maize in the diet of chicken (Ambasankar and chandrasekaran, 1998). However, data on feeding value of broken rice in Japanese quails is limited. The present experiment was, therefore, conducted to evaluate the feeding value of broken rice in laying Japanese quails.
broken rice (replacing 0, 5, 10 and 15% maize w/ w) for 4 months. The quails were housed in group replicate wise in cages with provision of feed and ad lib water. The proximate composition (AOAC, 1990), calcium and Phosphorous contents (Talapatra et al., 1940) of the test diets were estimated. The chemical composition of the experimental diets is given in (Table 1). Feed efficiency was calculated as feed intake per dozen egg produced. Data were analyzed statistically (Snedecor and Cochran, 1980) and means were tested for significant differences (Duncan, 1955). The egg production of laying quails fed diet with 5% maize replaced by broken rice was significantly (P
