EVALUATION OF THE SUBSTITUTION OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CORN (Zea mays) BY PEARL MILLETS (Pennisetun americanun) IN RATIONS FOR FINISHING SWINE

Authors

  • Márcia Nunes Bandeira UFG
  • Romão da Cunha Nunes UFG
  • Aldi Fernandes de Souza França UFG
  • Wilmo Tomé Uchôa UFG
  • José Henrique Stringhini UFG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/pat.v26i2.2938

Keywords:

Millets, pig, finishing

Abstract

A trial was carried out in order to evaluate the inclusion of pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum) in swine finisher ration. Twenty cross-bred swine (Landrace x Large White) weighing 53.00kg had in their rations different levels of millet (0, 25, 50, 75 and 100%) in substitution to the digestible energy furnished by corn. The experimental design used was the completely randomized in a factorial scheme (5 replacement levels x 2 sexes). With the results obtained in this experiment, one may infer that the substitution of corn by millet is possible to finisher swine rations.

KEY-WORDS: Millets; pig; finishing.

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Published

2007-12-17

Issue

v. 26, n. 2, Jul./Dec. 1996

Section

Research Article

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How to Cite

BANDEIRA, M. N. et al. EVALUATION OF THE SUBSTITUTION OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CORN (Zea mays) BY PEARL MILLETS (Pennisetun americanun) IN RATIONS FOR FINISHING SWINE. Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical [Agricultural Research in the Tropics], v. 26, n. 2, p. 57–64, 17 Dec.2007.