Show Broi broilers leep fattened well on cereal ration alone A test was carried on on at the poultry division central experimental farm ottawa canada comparing two rations one of which contained meat meal and the other cereal feeds only for fattening broilers equal parts of ground wheat ground oats and ground barley made up the cereal ration with the addition of 10 per cent of meat meal to the other both were fed three times dally using sour skim milk as a mixer and mixing each feed one feeding in advance two lots of chickens seven weeks of age were used thirty seven birds were in one and thirty six in the other group these birds were banded and weighed individually in grams at the beginning at the end of the first week and at the end of the experiment fourteen days the average gain for the two lots was practically identical the difference being only one tenth of an ounce per bird |