The Supplementary Value of Sunflower Seed Oil Meal in Practical Chick Starting Rations

Abstract

COMPARATIVELY few references on the nutritive value of sunflower seed oil meal for chicks are to be found in the literature. Pettit et al. (1944) reported the results of experiments in which meat meal in chick starting rations was replaced with sunflower seed oil meal. They concluded that sunflower seed oil meal may satisfactorily replace its protein equivalent of meat meal in amounts up to fourteen percent of the ration, representing a total substitution of the meat meal. Grau and Almquist (1945) reported that when fed at the twenty percent level, sunflower protein constitutes a complete single source of amino acids for the chick. McGinnis, Hsu and Carver (1948) presented data indicating that the nutritive value of a chick starting ration containing thirty-one percent sunflower seed oil meal was improved by the addition of 0.6 percent dl-lysine monohydrochloride. O’Neil (1948) found that sunflower seed oil meal satisfactorily replaced one-third of …