Department of Animal Nuirilion, Madras Veterinary College, Madras-600 007
Online published on 5 January, 2012.
Two digestion trials were conducted with nine castrated large White Yorkshire males to determine the nutritive value of Samai (Panicum miliare).The digestibility by-difference method was 70.92, 77.67 and 80.40 per cent, respectively for DM, CP and energy. However, by direct method, the respective digestion coefficients were 66.21, 74.20 and 74.25) per cent. The DE values for Samai as determined by regression technique was 11.87 and 11.74 M.J/kg at one and two per cent levels of feeding
