Teff grain for broiler feed

At week 1, there were no significant treatment differences for body weight or feed consumption values. It was observed that some chicks receiving the 10% ground teff treatment had incidences of fine, flour-like feed adhering to their beaks. Photo: Jan Willem van Vliet

Not all countries in the world have an ample supply of corn available to include in their poultry diets. The quest for alternatives is often driven by crops that are locally available. That led to research into sorghum and now into teff grain. Teff grain is a grass-like crop with very small size of grain, 150 kernels make up the weight of a single wheat kernel. The University of Missouri as a host to a USDA Cochran Fellowship Program, trained six participants from Ghana involving poultry feeds