Vegetable Protein Diets for Turkeys

Abstract

THE nutritive requirements of growing turkeys usually parallel and exceed those of growing chickens. Hammond and Titus (1943) have found it possible to obtain rapid growth in chickens by feeding diets containing no animal protein. Hunter, Marble, and Knandel (1935) found that soybean meal or corn gluten meal could be substituted for a part of the fish meal, meat scrap, and dried skimmilk ordinarily included in turkey starting and growing diets. Funk and Kempster (1940) found cottonseed meal and corn gluten meal equal in value in turkey starting and growing diets, and soybean meal to be superior to either corn gluten meal or cottonseed meal. Their starting and growing mashes contained 10 percent of meat scrap and 5 percent of dried skimmilk, hence did not provide a critical test of the value of the vegetable protein supplements.The high protein requirement of turkeys together with the shortage of animal prortein .