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The maintenance requirement of the fattening cockerel with a note on a proposed new method for the determination of the surface area of birds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

B. A. Southgate
Affiliation:
(From the Poultry Nutrition Section, Animal Nutrition Institute, Cambridge University.)

Extract

(1) The maintenance requirement of Light Sussex cockerels has been found by a feeding trial and comparative slaughter method. The maintenance requirement found was 22.1 calories per sq. m. of surface per hour. The net energy of the ration fed (Sussex ground oats: whole dried milk = 13 : 3) was 1.8 calories per gm.

(2) A new method of determining the surface area of birds is described.

(3) The value of K in the equation area = K has been found by this method to be 9.3.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1930

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