TY - JOUR AU - Babba, Hussaina Usman AU - Tukur, Hussaini Muhammad AU - Abubakar, Aminu AU - Lescoat, Philippe AU - Garba, Sani PY - 2020/01/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Effect of sequential feeding and feed form on laying hens fed whole sorghum JF - Scientific Journal of Animal Science JA - Sci. J. Anim. Sci. VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - DO - UR - https://www.sjournals.com/index.php/sjas/article/view/12 SP - 557-564 AB - <div><p>This study was conducted to monitor the performance of ISA Brown layers under different feeding systems using sorghum. The effect of feeding nutritionally different diets in sequential or loose-mix systems on the performance of three hundred and sixty (360) laying hens from 23<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;to 42<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;weeks of age was investigated. The birds were assigned to four (4) treatment groups of ninety (90) birds each. The treatments were control maize (ground), control sorghum (ground), loose-mix and sequential. Sequential feeding was found to reduce total feed intake, compared to both loose-mix and the two control treatments. Egg production was lower (P&lt;0.05) in the sequential treatment while egg weight, egg mass and final body weight were higher (P&lt;0.05). Feed conversion ratio was better (P&lt;0.05) in the sequential feeding. The study concluded that sorghum can be used as a replacement for maize part per part in feeding layers and that feeding whole sorghum grains loosely-mixed or sequentially had no negative effects on the performance of laying hens and are thus potential alternatives to the conventional feeding system.</p></div> ER -