The Influence of Distillery Slop on the Production of Chicken Fat

Abstract

EXPERIMENTS of Cruickshank (1934) have shown relationship between the fats contained in a ration and the fats deposited in the body of fowls. Other experiments by the same author (1937), using maize in a poultry-fattening ration for 12 days, showed no detrimental effect on the consistency of the body fat and further, when fattening was rapid and live weight gains were satisfactory, the type of fat deposited in the bird was harder than that produced on a normal ration containing mixed cereals and a protein supplement.Preliminary experiments by the authors indicated that growing chicks contain less subcutaneous and abdominal fat when thick distillery slop replaced corn in the ration.Thick distillery slop is the liquid containing approximately 8.5 percent solids, which remains after alcohol has been distilled from the fermented mash in the manufacture of whiskey or alcohol from grain. During fermentation most of the starch of the grains .