The potential of rapid visco-analysis starch pasting profiles to gauge the quality of sorghum as a feed grain for chicken-meat production

Thirteen extensively characterised grain sorghum varieties were evaluated in a series of 7 broiler bioassays. The efficiency of energy utilisation of broiler chickens offered sorghum-based diets is problematic and the bulk of dietary energy is derived from sorghum starch. For this reason, rapid visc...

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Main Authors: Ha H. Truong, Ali Khoddami, Amy F. Moss, Sonia Y. Liu, Peter H. Selle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2017-03-01
Series:Animal Nutrition
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405654516301536