—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 14.1968
16
Broiler Diet Research
Shows Meat & Bone Meal
Economical And Effective
Adding up to 10 percent meat
and bone meal to broiler diets is
both economical and effective.
Recent research by Thomas D.
Runnels, associate professor in
the department of animal sci
ence and agricultural biochemis
ts at the University of Dela
ware, shows it can be used at
higher levels than previously be
lieved
At the present time, most com
mercial bi oiler feeds contain
less than five percent meat and
bone meal. Nutritionists recom
mended such low levels because
they believed higher calcium
levels supplied by meat and
bone meal might have a depress
ing effect on broiler growth and
their use of feed
In a previous study by Sathe
and Clymont (1964), high calci
um levels tended to depress
growth when small amounts of
meat and bone meal were used
in the total protein supplement
However, this growth depiessing
effect of calcium was not observ
ed when meat and bone meal
was the majoi source of diet pro
tein Runnels believes this sug
gests that other dietary sources
of calcium may have been re
sponsible foi the giowth depres
sion
Runnels’ study showed con
clusively that the high level of
calcium and phosphorus contrib
uted by meat and bone meal has
no ill effects on broilei weight
gain and feed utilization if diet
ereigy and essential ainino acid
lev els-are maintained
Broiler quality remained high
when meat and bone meal was
used, according to Runnels Ob
servations on live buds showed
no diffeience in grade, peiosis,
bieasl blisters 01 other condi
tions
Substituting fish meal, distill
ei s dark grains or meat and bone
meal in the basic corn-soybean
diet improved broiler growth
On 7 5 percent meat and bone
meal, broilers average weight
was 4 64 pounds in nine weeks
compaied to 424 pounds foi a
coin-soybean meal diet With
thiee peicent fish meal added
weights averaged 442 pounds,
on 10 percent distilleis daik
giains, they aveiaged 456
pounds
Thus, the greatest gains were
observed with broilers receiving
the largest peicentages of meat
and bone meal in their diets
Runnels points out that this is
particularly important since the
cost of this ration was the low
est of any tested Least cost com
puter diets containing up to 10
percent meat and bone meal re
duced the feed ingredient costs
from $1 to $2 50 per ton com
pared to other feed costs at the
same nutrient levels
Approximately four billion
pounds of high protein meals aie
produced annually from animal
by-products in the United States
Despite the extreme variability
in raw material used for produc
ing these meals (fat trimmings,
waste fat, bone, packing-house
oftal, fallen animals, etc), the
finished product has a reason
ably uniform composition Close
process control and the relative
ly low temperature to which the
product is exposed—24o-degrees
F or less in most plants—helps
prevent any significant loss In
nutritive quality from heat dam
age to the essential amino acids
The high protein meals aie ex
cellent sources of calcium and
phosphorous as well as some of
the water soluble vitamins
Runnels conducted four ex-
periments to evaluate'meat and
bone meal in bi oiler diets. The
.chicks used in all four tests were
white broiler crosses bought
from the same commercial
hatchery. In the firrt experiment
they were sexed cockerels; in
the other three experiments,
th-y were sexed, but both sexes
were used
Chicks were thoroughly ran'
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Formulas for the first two ex
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All feeds were reduced to a uni
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Runnels states that broiler di
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calcium and 1.0 percent phos
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meat and bone meal, produced
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