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Growth and feed utilization of chicks and poults fed diets containing high levels of peas (P. sativum) were markedly improved by cooking or autoclaving peas prior to mixing into diets. Greatly increasing caloric content of diets by adding tallow did not give a growth response comparable to that obtained by simply cooking the peas. Alkali-insoluble fractions of peas depressed chick growth but alkali-soluble fractions did not. It is suggested that peas (P. sativum) contain a growth inhibitor for birds that is inactivated by heating treatments employed.
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