Replacement Value of Normal Maize with Quality Protein Maize (Obatampa) in Broiler Diets

Replacement of Normal Maize with Quality Protein Maize on Performance, Immune Response and Carcass Characteristics of Broiler Chickens

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of dietary replacement of normal maize (NM) with quality protein maize (QPM) on performance, immune response and carcass characteristics of broiler (Krishibro) chickens. Six experimental diets were prepared separately for starter and finisher phases. Diet 1 was a control diet formulated with NM and soybean meal. In diets 2-5, the NM was replace...

Quality Protein Maize Story

Quality protein maize

Maize (Zea mays L.) plays a very important role in human and animal nutrition in a number of developed and developing countries, worldwide. Breeding for improved protein quality in maize began in the mid-1960s with the discovery of mutants, such as opaque-2, that produce enhanced levels of lysine and tryptophan, the two amino acids deficient in maize endosperm proteins. However, adverse pleiotr...

Performance of Broiler Chickens Fed Two Varieties of Guinea Corn and Millets as Replacement for Maize

The study was carried out to evaluate the effects of complete replacement of maize with two varieties of guinea corn and two varieties of millets on the growth performance and nutrient retention in broiler chickens. Five isonitrogenous and isocaloric diets for the broiler starter (23.5% CP; 2800 kcal/ME) and finisher (21.5% CP; 2900 kcal/ME) phases were formulated. Diet 1 consisted on a maize b...

Replacement of Normal Maize with Quality Protein Maize in Concentrate Mixture Has No Effect on Antibody Response against Salmonella Enterica Ssp. Enterica Ser Typhimurium in mithun-Bos Frontalis

Total replacement of normal maize with quality protein maize (QPM) in young mithun (Bos frontalis) diet had no significant (p ¿0.5) effect on antibody response against Salmonella enterica ssp. enterica ser Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium). Therefore it may be recommended that there is no added advantage of feeding QPM to mithun and probably to other ruminants with reference to immune response.