 | Abstract 598Evaluation of cassava root meal prepared from low- or high-cyanide containing cultivars in pig and broiler diets.Gomez,-G; Valdivieso,M; Santos,-J; Hoyos,-C Cassava Program, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Ap. Aereo 67-13, Cali, Colombia. Nutrition-Reports-International. 1983, 28: 4, 693-704; 26 ref. Cassava roots from cultivars low (CMC-40 and Llanera) or high (MCol 1684) in cyanide were chipped, dried in the sun on a concrete floor and ground. Cyanide content of chips was below 100 mg/kg. From 17 kg 48 pigs 60 days old were given diets based on sorghum without or with 30% cassava meal (CM) of both types until they weighed 96 to 98 kg. From farrowing 14 sows and litters were given diets without or with 30% CM high in cyanide with a separate diet for piglets from 14 days old with 40% CM. From hatching 735 Arbor Acres chickens were given a commercial diet without or with 10 or 20% CM of both types. Performance of pigs and chickens given control diets was similar to those for groups given CM of cultivars low and high in cyanide. This abstract relates to the following species: |