Aruna Tomar ¹, K. S. Singh ¹, S. Sahu ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Animal Science and Veterinary Radiology Department, Govind Ballab Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263 145, IN

Abstract

High phytin content in the feeds interferes with the availability of the dietary calcium that the availability of calcium on a diet based on rice bran was lower than on diet based on maize. Rice bran is an important food resource in India. The present investigation was conducted to study the effect of feeding diets based on rice bran to growing chickens on the mineralization of their femur bones.

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S. K. M. Vali ¹, K. S. Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarpradesh, IN

Abstract

Rice bran is an important basal feed for livestock in the rice growing areas of the world. Effect of heat treatment on the nutritive value of rice bran appears to be variable. Majan and Payne reported that autoclaving rice bran for chicken diets did not affect the live weight gain, liver weight, heart weight and weight of pancreas of the birds. Kratzer and Payne found that autoclaving ricebran significantly increased growth rate of chickens. Deolankar and Singh reported that the heating of rice bran given with groundnut cake and fish meal did not improve the growth rate of broilers and suggested that heat destroyed amino acids.

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