Abstract
OAT and oat products have given good results in poultry feeding and are recommended by Call and Wilcke (1939) Ewing (1943), Kennard and Chamberlain (1936), Poley (1938), Record (1943) and Wilcke (1943) as constituents of rations for chickens and turkeys. Kennard and Chamberlain (1940) encountered a digestive disorder in young poults fed a ration containing ten percent coarsely ground oats. They stated that the cause of this digestive disorder, which resulted in a high mortality during the first six weeks, was due to the coarseness of oats. They concluded that the best procedure was to eliminate the ground oats from the poult ration for the first six weeks.During the spring of 1946, it was impossible to obtain finely pulverized oats. As a result, coarsely ground oats were used in some of the poultry rations at the Poultry Division of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Results from two experiments in .
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