Show releases turkey feeding results experiments conducted in feeding turkeys by the utah agricultural experiment station during the past year indicate that feeding of skim milk in the growing ration soaking of mash in milk introduction of oats to the mash and high protein rations are not or economically afan fattening of turkeys I 1 Tro professor fessor byron alder who directed the experiment pointed I 1 out that the above conclusions are only tentative and that the experiment will be repeated two more years for verifications A sr es I 1 of experiments which was conducted in 1935 36 37 however was repeated sufficiently to verify the or original ginal conclusion A sumi sum i 1 mary inary of that series showed that the most economical ration in growing turkeys is one with low protein content from 14 to 18 per par cent home grown wheat and barley and no skim milk turkeys in this years experiment were separated into ten pens and each fed a separate ration showing the lowest feed per pound were fed a mash 0 of 24 per cent ground wheat 24 per cent ground barley 8 per cent meat meal 8 per cent fish meal the low meal content making it I 1 a low protein ration and 36 per cent other ingredients which were introduced in the same proportions in the mashes for all ten pens there was no dampened mash skim milk or soaked barley fed to the turkeys in this pen and the g grain r a I 1 n fed was 40 per cent wheat 30 per cent barley and 30 per cent oats feed cost per pound weight was cents feed cost per pound in another pen was cents the highest for all pens the mash fed this group was the same as that fed the most economical pen except that it was soaked and alfalfa meal was introduced end and fed twice daily this pen was also fed skim milk once a day and the grain feed was 50 per cent wheat and 50 per cent barley through the experiments it was further concluded that the feed cost per pound for hens is almost a cent greater than for toms the difference paid on the market however is sufficient to justify the difference in cost professor alder pointed out |