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1945 
CORN SUBSTITUTES IN THE DIET 
OF BOB WHITE CHICKS 
By RALPH B. NESTLER, BIOLOGIST 
Conclusion 
& Sportsman, fon “february, 
TasLe 4. RESULTS FROM EXPERIMENT 5 
(Data from duplicate pens combined ) 
Diet containing 
50% corn and 50% 
Corn Oat Buck- 
alone Wheat Oats Barley Rye groats Millet Kafhr wheat 
Survival of birds (%) 
through: 4th week.. 78 71 74 64 80 57. 82 42 70 
6th weekow 618, ue O20, 02, 9 tenn ee Cue o ae O+ 
Weight of birds (grams) 
at end of: 4th week. 40 44 44 41 43 38 45 41 = 43 
Othitweeke 82" 7 OP CU Noe smol 165 Sa 79 ~=80 


‘ Total feed consumed by 
each bird during Ist 
TOUCRVCC lS eee Jo ake We 
‘ Grams of feed required 
for each gram gain in 
weight during Ist four 
weeks... 
Chel pees te eae oto: 
ded Ste hah, VBE 
109.937 21061045 123 
2 ne a ee 
1 The record through the 6th week was lost. 
2 Data rejected because of discrepancies. 
Rating: Vable 5 gives the evaluation 
of the various cereals for the first four 
weeks (except in the case of corn alone) 
on the basis of all data, and for the first 
six weeks on the basis of data pertain- 
ing to survival and bird weights only. 
In evaluating the cereals for six weeks 
the loss of the feed consumption data 
prevented the use of such and of conse- 
quential “efficiency” computations. 
TABLE 5, RATING OF CEREALS WHEN 
CoMBINED WITH YELLOW CoRN 
IN GROWING DIET. 
First First 
4 weeks 6 weeks 
Cormealones ae eee be: 100 
Miullet=corni ee LOO 99 
Wheat=corn/. eee 97 92 
Rye—cori tee oes 97 95 
Onis cone eee 95 89 
Barley—corn ose. eee 90 
Oat groats-corn 7... 91 77 
Buckwheat—corn.... 91 90 
Kafhi—coth. ©. sea 83 73 
Millet when fed in combination with 
corn on a fifty-fifty basis, as when fed 
as the sole cereal in a diet, merits first 
place. Rye, wheat and oats when 
mixed with corn produced much better 
results as constituents in the diet of 
quail chicks than when fed as sole 
cereals. Rye especially was improved 
as a quail food when mixed with corn. 
The unaccountable heavy mortality in 
one of the pens given the diet contain- 
ing kaffir caused this cereal, which rated 
so high in the first four experiments, to 
rate last in Experiment 5. 
Summary 
Of nine cereals used in the diet of 
growing quail, millet consistently gave 
the best results considering survival, 
bird-weights, feed consumption, and 
efficiency of feed utilization. MiAllet, 
kaffir, and buckwheat when fed as sole 
cereals gave results comparable to those 
obtained with yellow corn. Results on 
oats and rye as sole cereals were not 
very satisfactory. 
When quail chicks were given a 
choice of mashes based on the cereals 
under consideration, they showed the 
greatest preference for the one contain- 
ing millet as sole cereal, and the least 
desire for that containing oat groats. 
However, none of the preferences was 
outstanding. 
Any of the cereals successfully re- 
placed half of the corn in the diet, 
millet, wheat, and rye being the leading 
three. 
When substituting for yellow corn, 
one should bear in mind that yellow 
corn is a fair source of carotene (Pro- 
vitamin A), whereas all of the other 
cereals mentioned herein are poor 
sources. “Cherefore, sufficient vitamin A 
or carotene should be supplied by means 
of other feedstuffs in order to prevent 
a deficiency of this important nutrient. 

