Significant Differences In Digestibility Research Articles

Effect of Grinding on Digestibility of Argentine Flint Corn

ONE of the problems which have confronted poultrymen is the question of the relative feeding values of whole and ground grains. Fields and Ford (1900), Krüger (1925), Mangold (1928), Bartlett (1910), and others have found no significant differences in digestibility due to the state of subdivision of a grain when fed. Kaupp and Ivey (1923) found slightly better digestibility for corn meal than for whole corn. The object of this investigation was to study the effect of grinding on digestibility. Argentine flint corn was selected because it is the hardest grain that is used to any extent in animal feeding. A second reason for studying this grain was that there was no information on the digestibility of Argentine flint corn in the literature. Since this grain is being used to an increasing extent in poultry feeding, more information on its feeding value was desired.MATERIALOne hundred pounds of Argentine .