Yellow Millet

Millets are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (especially in India, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger), with 97% of millet production in developing countries. The crop is favored due to its productivity and short growing season under dry, high-temperature conditions.

Millet is hard-hulled and should be ground before being fed to livestock. It should be finely ground: coarse grinding leads to the hard hull splintering into sharp fibres, which can result in internal irritation.  It can be used in ruminant, poultry and pig rations without adversely affecting feed efficiency or weight gain.

Ruminants
Pearl millet grain replaced up to 10% of corn silage or maize grain in dairy cow and mature goat diets with no deleterious effect on DM intake (Ribeiro et al., 2004; Terrill et al., 1998). In Brazil, pearl millet grain replaced up to 67% of whole maize plant without affecting milk performance (França et al., 2004).