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Digestibility trials with poultry: VII. On the influence of the size of a ration upon its digestibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

E. T. Halnan
Affiliation:
(Poultry Nutrition Section, Animal Nutrition Institute, School of Agriculture, Cambridge.)

Extract

1. Four White Leghorn cockerels were fed with widely varying quantities of a Sussex ground oats and milk mixture without material alteration in the coefficients of digestibility of the digestible nutrients.

2. The amounts fed varied from a sub-maintenance ration of 50 gm. to a “limit of appetite” ration of 150 gm. A slight depression in the coefficients of digestibility of the organic matter, the crude protein and the N-free extract, and a slight increase in the coefficient of digestibility of the ether extract was obtained, but the differences shown are attributed to normal fluctuations in digestibility due to individual variation and not to differences in the quantity of food given.

3. In feeding experiments carried out with fowls, in which variable amounts of food are fed, these experiments indicate that it may safely be assumed that the coefficients of digestibility of the food nutrients are not materially affected by the variations in the amounts of food fed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1928

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