Amino Acid Supplementation of a Sesame Meal Diet ,

SESAME meal used as the only protein source in the diet of the growing chick is adequate in all amino acids for this species except lysine. Almquist and Grau (1944), conducted experiments to study the supplementary effect of sesame and soybean meals and found that best gains were made by chicks fed a ration in which the ratio of sesame-soybean protein approached 7:13. In a subsequent paper, Grau and Almquist (1944), reported that optimum chick growth was obtained when 0.5% l-lysine was added to an all sesame protein diet. These observations were confirmed when Block and Boiling (1945), reported the amino acid analysis of sesame seed protein. Patrick (1953), found that the addition of 0.5% dl-lysine to a grain-sesame diet improved growth, and that further improvement in growth was obtained when 0.5% dl-lysine with either 10% soybean meal or 5% albumin was added to the basal diet. Because of these . . .