High Protein Peanut Oil Meal with Fish Meal-Fish Solubles Blend in Broiler Diets ,

IN GENERAL, attempts to utilize peanut oil meal as a source of vegetable protein for growing chicks have met with favorable results when the rations have been adequately fortified with methionine, lysine, calcium and phosphorus. In much of the experimental work conducted, a 41 percent protein peanut oil meal has been used in diets high in animal protein, relatively low in energy and fed to birds with a relatively slow rate of growth. Bryant (1931) concluded that peanut oil meal, when supplemented with minerals, can replace 50 percent of the meat scrap in a ration without affecting the growth of chicks and can replace 75 percent without materially affecting growth. As much as 15 percent of peanut oil meal may replace an equal weight of soybean oil meal in diets used by Hammond (1944). Marvel et al. (1945) concluded that peanut oil meal could replace soybean oil meal when 10 . . .