Abstract
WEATHER conditions during the harvest season determine whether the crop will dry normally or whether the grain will retain high moisture content and require mechanical drying before it can be stored. The large discount prices on high moisture corn would make it a very attractive feed ingredient if it could be utilized without having to be dried. Giesler (1960) demonstrated that corn containing 21.5% moisture could be successfully fed to swine. Stone (1965) reported that for dairy cattle a pound of dry matter in corn containing 30% moisture was nutritionally equal to the dry matter of corn containing 15% moisture. More recently, Pérez and Preston (1970) reported the feeding of both high-moisture (30% moisture) and reconstituted high-moisture corn to broilers. Their diets were formulated on a dry matter basis and they obtained no significant difference in body weights of broilers fed dried corn or ensiled corn having natural high-moisture or…
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