Grain size and texture of corn in diets of laying hens: milling cost, performance and egg quality

• Grant number: 11/03725-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: January 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Animal Nutrition and Feeding
• Principal Investigator: Edivaldo Antônio Garcia
• Grantee: Javer Alves Vieira Filho
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The experiment will be conducted in the poultry laying the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, UNESP - Botucatu, in the period from 19/11/2010 to 10/03/2011, using 384 hens of Isa Brown strain with weeks of age, distributed in a completely randomized in a 2x3 factorial, with two types of corn (dent and flint) and three particle sizes (602.08, 784.86 and 1166.19 for durum wheat and 612.95, 831.23, 1230, 05 toothed grain) with eight replications of eight birds per plot, totaling 48 plots, the experiment will have a total of 112 days divided into four periods of 28 days. At the end of each period will be made to collect two whole eggs per plot during two consecutive days for evaluation of egg quality variables. The rations will be formulated in accordance with the requirements of the strain. The GMD of the particles will be determined before the experimental period. Will be evaluated productive performance (feed intake, feed conversion, egg weight, percentage of eggs cracked and broken, viability, egg mass), egg quality (percentage of shell, shell thickness, specific gravity, shell strength breakage, color of the yolk, percentage of yolk and albumen and Haugh units) and consumption of energy expended in the grinding process. The data will be submitted to variance analysis using the program's resources SISVAR and means compared by SNK test at 5% probability. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

VIEIRA FILHO, Javer Alves. Granulometria e textura do milho em dietas para poedeiras comerciais: consumo de energia elétrica, desempenho e qualidade de ovos. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia. Botucatu Botucatu.