The Utilization of Food Elements by Growing Chicks. VIII. A Comparison of Alfalfa Meal and Artificially Dried Sudan Grass Meal in Rations for Growing Chicks

Authors

C. W. Ackerson
M. J. Blish
F. E. Mussehl

Date of this Version

12-1939

Document Type

Article

Citation

Ackerson, C.W., Blish, M.J. and Mussehl, F.E. (1939). The utilization of food elements by growing chicks. VIII. A comparison of alfalfa meal and artificially dried Sudan grass meal in rations for growing chicks (Research Bulletin: Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska No. 116)

Comments

ISSN 0097-1447

Abstract

1. The effect of replacing the ten parts of alfalfa meal in a ration with artificially dried Sudan-grass meal on an equivalent protein basis was studied in a growth and body-analysis experiment with two lots of day-old chicks. 2. The chicks of both lots consumed equal amounts of dry matter during the feeding trial. 3. There were no significant differences in the growth rate or composition of the chicks at the end of a six weeks' feeding trial.