A Comparison of Digestible Coefficients for Cattle, Swine and Poultry as Suggesting a More Accurate Basis for Computing Poultry Rations

Abstract

Before presenting this paper I wish, first, to correct a clerical error in the topic as it appears on the program. It should read “A Comparison of Digestible Coefficients for Cattle, Swine, and Poultry as Suggesting a More Accurate Basis for Computing Poultry Rations.” In other words, I wish to offer this merely as a suggestion, with the hope that it may eventually lead to the use of a more uniform method of computing nutritive ratios by the different Poultry Departments.Due to the difficulty of obtaining coefficients of digestion of feeds by poultry, which has resulted in the very meager data now available, we have come to freely use the coefficients for other animals, and in these calculations. If I am correctly informed, the station computes the nutritive ratio in all instances from the total composition of the grain, disregarding digestibility entirely.Most of the stations, however, in the …