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Filtering by: Subject Flax as feed Advisor Arscott, George H. Resource Type Dissertation

Improvement of white western wheat for chickens through application of dietary additives

Creator:

Johnston, Norman Paul, 1941-

Abstract:

Studies were conducted with Indian River "Hybro" broiler chicks and Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station dwarf and normal White Leghorn hens to improve the utilization of white western wheat. Chick studies were primarily concerned with characterizing the growth inducing properties of an antibiotic fermentation residue (Vigofac) which had shown a greater...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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were as follows: egg production, 72.7 to 76.3 percent; feed consumption,69. 7 to 72.4 percent; feed