Peanut Oil Meal as a Source of Protein in Broiler Diets ,

EARLY attempts to utilize peanut oil meal as a source of protein for growing chicks have indicated it is of inferior quality to soybean oil meal or meat scraps. However, when diets were adequately fortified, peanut oil meal could replace 50 percent of the soybean oil meal (Heuser et al., 1946) or 50 percent of the meat scraps (Bryant, 1931) in the diet of growing chicks. In most of the early experimental work a 41 percent protein peanut oil meal was used in diets containing high levels of animal protein. Driggers and Tarver (1958) conducted a series of six feeding trials in which they reported that comparable results were obtained when one-half of the soybean oil meal was replaced with an equal weight of 55 percent protein peanut oil meal. Since neither energy nor protein were kept constant in the experimental diets employed by Driggers and Tarver (1958), it was …