Nutritive value of new cultivars of triticale and XXXX for broiler chick diets.

@entity17492 @entity4336 @entity1939 @entity376 @entity3505
Three experiments were conducted with broiler chicks from 1 to 21 days of age to evaluate Florida 301 variety of @entity3505 and Beagle 82 variety of triticale. In Experiment 1, a @entity1939 ( @entity1939 ) was used for five dietary treatments: yellow @entity4336 -soy (control), triticale-soy, yellow @entity4336 -triticale-soy, @entity3505 -soy and yellow @entity4336 - @entity3505 -soy. Diets were balanced to maintain equal levels of @entity17492 and @entity376 and were kept isocaloric (3,124 kcal/kg) using @entity4336 oil. In Experiment 2, a @entity1939 was used for 10 dietary treatments. Each grain was substituted partially and totally for @entity4336 on both iso and nonisocaloric basis. Animal fat was the supplemental fat source. In Experiment 3, a @entity1939 was used for 8 dietary treatments. Each grain was substituted for @entity4336 isocalorically using @entity4336 oil, animal fat, or both as supplemental fat sources. Results from these experiments showed that Florida 301 @entity3505 is an excellent cereal grain for broiler chicks as measured by feed efficiency and growth response, which was numerically but not significantly greater than with a @entity4336 -soy control diet. Growth response was inconsistent with Beagle 82 triticale throughout the three experiments. However, feed efficiency was better with triticale diets than @entity4336 -based diets.
