Show milk products fill many poultry needs health and production improved Imn roved by their use dried milk products dried skim milk dried buttermilk and dried cheese whey are important ingredients in practically all commercially mixed poultry mashes and are important to farmers seeking added quality in their poultry rations many supplements included in poultry feeds are added to provide one specific nutrient but milk products provide many nutrients and perform several important jobs in a poultry mash all three popular milk product supplements long have been recognized as rich natural sources of riboflavin this vitamin has been 7 A an I 1 value of farmers grain will be increased by mixing into the mashes one of the dried milk products found necessary to health and growth in chicks and is helpful in maintaining high egg production and increased hatchability these milk products also are high in lactose or muk milk sugar this is important in poultry feeds because milk sugar favors development of a friendly bacteria in the intestines and this helps provide good intestinal health proteins found in milk products have a high biological or growth promoting value they provide balance to the proteins in cereal feeds the combination of lactose and high quality protein in these products helps assure more complete assimilation and utilization of other nutrients in mixed feeds and of course dried skim milk dried buttermilk or dried cheese whey contain sizable quantities ol of calcium and phosphorus and the other minerals of milk |