Effect of Graded Levels of Bambermycins on Turkey Growth Performance

Authors

• R.J. Grant, Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Somerville
• P.E. Waibel, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
• T.W. Sullivan, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
• C.L. Quarles, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1979

Citation

1979 Author(s)

Comments

1979 Poultry Science 58:1397-1399

Abstract

Three experiments were conducted in Minnesota, Nebraska, and Colorado to determine the effect on turkey performance of feeding graded levels of bambermycins (Flavomycin ®1) from one day of age to market weight. The body weight and feed efficiency values are averages for 22-week-old males and 18-week-old females. Bambermycins produced significant (P<.001; P<.05) improvements in body weight or feed efficiency in all three experiments. Composite average body weights at 0, 1.1, 2.2, and 4.4 mg bambermycins/kg diet were 10.40, 10.54, 10.59, and 10.64 kg, respectively. Overall, average feed efficiencies from bambermycins at 0, 1.1, 2.2, and 4.4 mg/kg of diet were 2.76, 2.73, 2.72, and 2.71, respectively.