Effect of Replacing Part of the Soybean Meal in Turkey Poult Rations With Amino Acid and Carbohydrate Mixtures

Abstract

THIS paper reports results of experiments conducted to determine if poult performance could be improved by altering the amino acid balance in a ration based on corn, soybean meal and methionine or in a ration based on corn, soybean meal, herring meal and methionine.Experiments also are being conducted at our station to determine how the essential amino acids should be proportioned to make a well balanced turkey poult ration. The results of tests along this line through the 1968 season were presented at the 1968 meeting of the Poultry Science Association. A more complete publication of these results is not planned until more experiments are conducted. Major modification of the proportions listed in the abstract (Warnick and Anderson, 1968b) is not expected, and the values reported in the abstract were used as a guide in formulating rations 2 and 5 fed in the work reported in this paper. The.