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Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports

2021

Broiler growth performance

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Effect Of Soybean Meal From Different Midwest Soybean Varieties On Growth Performance Of Broilers, Kara M. Dunmire, Michaela B. Braun, Caitlin E. Evans, Charles R. Stark, Chad B. Paulk Jan 2021

Effect Of Soybean Meal From Different Midwest Soybean Varieties On Growth Performance Of Broilers, Kara M. Dunmire, Michaela B. Braun, Caitlin E. Evans, Charles R. Stark, Chad B. Paulk

Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports

At hatch, 360 one-d old Cobb500 male broilers were placed in battery cages to determine the effect of soybean meal (SBM) from different Midwest soybean varieties on growth performance of broilers. There were 6 broilers per cage and 15 replicates per treatment. Dietary treatments cons0isted of 1 of 4 soybean sources varying in quality determined by crude protein (CP) content and processed into SBM. Two sources consisted of soybeans from a similar region and processed either commercially solvent extracted or experimentally solvent extracted at Texas A&M University. Additional sources included a low quality and high quality soybean, experimentally solvent extracted …