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Journal of Nutrition Vol. 75 No. 1 September 1961, pp. 127-131
Copyright © 1961 by American Society for Nutrition
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Influence of Feeding Various Levels of Velvet Beans to Chicks and Laying Hens1

R. H. Harms, Charles F. Simpson and P. W. Waldroup

Departments of Poultry Science and Veterinary Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Two chick experiments and one laying hen experiment were conducted to determine the feeding value of velvet beans for poultry. Results from these tests indicated that velvet beans are not a satisfactory feedstuff for use in poultry feeds. Feeding of diets containing velvet beans at levels used in these studies decreased performance of chicks as measured by mortality and reduced body gains, and decreased performance of laying hens as measured by rate of lay.

There appeared to be some factor(s) in velvet beans that interferes with the normal processes of growth and egg production in chickens.

1 Florida Agricultural Experiment Stations, Journal Series no. 1263.

Manuscript received 21 April 1961.




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