Effects of Zinc Bacitracin, Dried Bakery Product and Different Fish Meals in Diets of Young Turkeys

NUMEROUS experiments have been conducted with antibiotics in diets of chickens (Matterson et al., 1951; Davis and Briggs, 1951; Biely and March, 1951; Heuser and Norris, 1952; Bird et al., 1952; Machlin et al., 1952; Waibel et al., 1954; Libby and Schaible, 1955; Potter et al., 1962b; Nelson et al., 1963; Combs and Bossard, 1963) and in diets of turkeys (Stokstad and Jukes, 1950; Almquist and Merritt, 1951; Branion and Hill, 1951; Davis and Briggs, 1951; McGinnis et al., 1951, 1958; Atkinson and Couch, 1952; Williams and Hill, 1952; Moran and McGinnis, 1965). Yet, the effectiveness of various levels of different antibiotics in promoting growth in present day turkey diets needs further investigation and verification. Dried bakery product has been evaluated in broiler diets by Damron et al. (1965) and has been evaluated in metabolizable energy studies by Matterson et al. (1965) and Potter (1970). The evaluation of fish meal…