Hemp seed cake in organic broiler diet

M. Eriksson and H. Wall from the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, University of Agricultural Science examined production and health of fast-growing broilers fed diets with and without hemp seed cake (HSC) in organic broiler production. Two diets, a control diet (C) and a diet including HSC (H), were fed to 1,200 Ross 308 chickens which were divided over 8 pens. The production performance was registered weekly, even though there was high mortality due to a short heat wave they found that the inclusion of hemp seed cake  did not affect total production performance or mortality. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers.