COMPARISON OF TOWER RAPESEED MEAL AND SOYBEAN MEAL IN DIETS BASED ON CONVENTIONAL AND HIGH-PROTEIN WHEAT WITH AND WITHOUT SUPPLEMENTAL LYSINE FOR BROILER CHICKS

Abstract

Body weights and feed-to-gain ratios of chicks fed diets that contained Tower rapeseed meal or soybean meal with conventional (13.5%) or high-protein (21.0%) wheats with and without supplemental lysine were compared. High-protein wheat-rapeseed meal diets required lysine supplementation for optimal gain, whereas conventional protein wheat-rapeseed meal diets did not. However, with equal energy in the diets, the rapeseed meal diets did not support as low a feed-to-gain ratio as the soybean meal diets. Key words: broiler chicks, diets, rapeseed meal, soybean meal, wheat, lysine