Abstract
INTRODUCTIONA PART from the work of McWard and Scott (1961), there has been very little work published during the past 15 years on the sodium requirement of the young chick. There have, however, been studies to determine the sodium requirements of turkeys (Kumpost and Sullivan, 1966) and of pheasants and quail (Scott et al., 1960).McWard and Scott (1961) concluded from two studies that broiler strain chicks, maintained on wire floors and fed a glucose-isolated soybean protein diet, required 0.11% sodium for maximum growth. This sodium requirement was considerably lower than was found by Heuser (1952) and by Burns et al. (1953). Heuser (1952) reported that White Leghorn chicks, maintained on wire and fed a practical type diet which contained 0.247% sodium (by analysis), required the addition of 0.25 % sodium chloride for maximum growth. Thus, the results indicate a sodium requirement of approximately 0.35%.Burns et al. (1953)…
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