Nutrition

Extract

Fish-meal and Meatmeal. The South African Poultry Magazine, Nov. '28. Department of Agriculture. Interesting feeding experiments with poultry.

On the poultry section of the Potcheftroom School of Agriculture two exceptionally interesting and instructive experiments are being conducted. The values of meat-meal and fish-meal as foodstuffs for poultry are being determined. The meat-meal feeding experiment has been in progress since November, 1927, and the egg-production for the last five months is as follows:

20 per cent, meat-meal fed, 295 eggs laid; 12½ per cent. meat-meal fed, 235 eggs laid; 5 per cent. meat-meal fed, 197 eggs laid; 0 p. cent. meat-meal fed, 175 eggs laid. During the period November, 1927, to August, 1928, the egg production was 1,144, 1,030, 936 and 954 respectively. It is, however, only during the winter months that the suitability of a foodstuff actually becomes apparent. The figures show clearly that meat-meal is an essential constituent of the ration during this period. Of course, all the fowls received sufficient quantities of the respective rations. This experiment, and the information obtained in other places, indicate that the best balanced ration is that which ontains about 12½ per cent, meat-meal.