Metabolisable energy determinations using chicks and Turkeys

Abstract

Experimental mashes containing different proportions of maize, wheat, barley and oats were fed to young broiler chickens and turkeys. Metabolisable energy (ME) determinations were carried out from 5 to 7 and from 19 to 21 d of age. The turkeys obtained 3.2 and 1.7% more metabolisable energy than chicks from the diets used when assessed on a classical ME and N‐corrected ME basis respectively. The difference was smaller when maize formed a major part of the diet than for the other cereals. Higher ME values were also obtained in the older birds but the effect was not reproducible.