Dried Skim Milk and Other Supplements in the Ration During Gaecal Coccidiosis of Chicks

Abstract

Summary

Further evidence is supplied for the unfavorable effect of dry buttermilk in the ordinary type of growing ration when White Leghorn chicks become infected with sizable doses of Eimeria tenella. It is now shown that dry skim milk has an effect similar to that of dry buttermilk. It made little difference when soy bean oil meal (expeller process) was substituted for a considerable part of the meat element in meat scraps, or when a fine grade of low-temperature sardine meal was substituted for dry milks.

Further, it was brought out in chicks on 2 different rations that there was no difference in mortality from infective inoculations of 100,000 and 200,000 oöcysts (Experiment 3).