Effect of Penicillin on the Growth of Goslings

WHILE it is well established that antibiotics cause growth stimulation in chicks and poults under certain conditions, no evidence on this question appears to have been published with respect to goslings. The present experiment was made to determine the influence of penicillin on the growth of goslings fed an all-pellet diet and this same diet plus a free choice supply of grain or fresh lawn clippings. Day old White Chinese ♂ ♂×Emden ♀ ♀ goslings were vent sexed and weighed individually. They were then distributed into the various experimental groups on the basis of sex and weight. The experiment comprised 6 groups of 14 male and 11 female goslings. The goslings were reared on litter in similar pens of a brooder house with brooding heat supplied by infra red lamps. The composition of the basal diets used is shown in Table 1. Diet No. 1 was fed for the …