Table 3.

The effect of sorghum variety, feed form (reground mash versus intact pellet) and steam-pelleting conditioning temperature on growth performance, mortality/cull rates and relative gizzard weights from 7 to 28 days post--hatch.

Treatment			Weight gain, g/bird	Feed intake, g/bird	FCR, g/g	Mortalities, %	Gizzard wt, g/kg
Sorghum	Feed form	Temperature
#3	Mash	65°C	1,236	1,873	1.516	11.11	18.86
		97°C	1,241	1,922	1.549	2.78	20.47
	Pellet	65°C	1,364	2,040	1.497	2.78	18.08
		97°C	1,366	2,097	1.535	11.11	20.53
#5	Mash	65°C	1,224	1,910	1.561	2.78	20.21
		97°C	1,190	1,906	1.602	0.00	21.55
	Pellet	65°C	1,295	2,071	1.600	0.00	19.81
		97°C	1,311	2,151	1.641	2.78	20.60
SEM			20.936	32.533	0.0137	2.6353	0.2217
Main effects: Sorghum
#3			1,302b	1,983	1.524	6.95	19.49
#5			1,255a	2,009	1.601	1.39	20.54
Feed form
Reground mash			1,223a	1,903a	1.557	4.17	20.27b
Intact pellet			1,334b	2,090b	1.568	4.17	19.76a
Temperature
65°C			1,279	1,974	1.544a	4.17	19.24
97°C			1,277	2,019	1.582b	4.17	20.19
Significance (P=)
Sorghum (S)			0.003	0.258	<0.001	0.005	<0.001
Feed form (FF)			<0.001	<0.001	0.243	1.000	0.025
Temperature (T)			0.872	0.057	<0.001	1.000	<0.001
Interactions: S × FF			0.298	0.486	0.006	1.000	0.479
S × T			0.671	0.751	0.768	1.000	0.035
FF × T			0.441	0.319	0.894	0.005	0.754
S × FF × T			0.383	0.417	0.894	0.144	0.122

^a,b Means within columns not sharing common superscripts are significantly different at the 5% level of probability.