Emulsified Oil as a Liquid Feed Supplement for Poultry

Abstract

DONALDSON et al. (1957) showed that growing chicks can tolerate as much as 33 % of fat in the diet provided the other nutrients are supplied in adequate amounts. The quantity of fat which can be incorporated into a ration would appear to be, therefore, limited more by the physical characteristics of the resulting feed than by the tolerance of the bird for fat. Shoshkes et al. (1951) found that fat emulsions might be administered orally to promote a high caloric intake in human nutrition. The following experiments were conducted to determine if growing chicks would drink an aqueous emulsion of oil and what effect the consumption of such an emulsion would have on growth and feed efficiency.EXPERIMENTAL AND RESULTSExperiment 1. Two standardized lots of 3½ week old New Hampshire cockerels were fed a basal diet containing 27.5% protein and given water or an aqueous emulsion of corn …