Canola Meal and Fish Meal in Turkey Starter Diets

Abstract

Canola meal was incorporated into turkey starter diets at levels of 0, 150, 300, and 450 g/kg with either 0, 60, or 120 g herring fish meal per kilogram. The diets were fed to Large White female poults from 7 to 42 days of age. The replacement of soybean meal by canola meal did not change live weights at 42 days. Fish meal at either 60 or 120 g/kg increased the final weights by 5.3%. Canola meal reduced and fish meal improved feed efficiency. No synergistic effect on growth occurred when canola meal was combined with fish meal. (

The Replacement Value of Canola Meal for Soybean Meal in Poultry Diets

“…These results, however, confirm observations of Albino et al (1982), Salmon (1982) and Proudfoot et al (1983 Contrary to observations made with birds fed diets with full-fat canola (Olomu et al 1975b. Summers et al 1982;Leeson et al 1986) where both fat and energy utilization were reduced, birds in this study utilized dietary fat and energy to a degree comparable with that ofbirds fed the control diet.…”