Factors Influencing the Feeding Value of Rice and Other Cereal Grains for the Turkey Poult

LLOYD (1918) reported that rough rice, when fed not to exceed one-third of the grain (in a mash-grain system of feeding) for hens, was a nourishing feed and caused no injurious effects. Smith (1929 Smith (1930) fed broilers a diet containing relatively large amounts of brewers’ rice, rice bran, and rice polish and found that the growth rate was comparable to that obtained with a control ration. Upp (1933) fed laying pullets various rice products, (rice bran, rice polish, rough rice and brewers’ rice) individually and in combinations, in amounts up to 74.4 percent of the ration. Winter egg yield, yearly egg yield, hatchability, egg size, egg quality, body weight and livability of the birds were used as criteria of measurement for dietary adequacy and none of these found to be affected. Smith (1946 Smith (1948) incorporated rice products in the diet of hens fed both mash and grain. He suggested that …