Abstract 157

Rehman,-A; Malik,-MY

Animal Nutrition Dep., College of Veterinary Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.

PakistanJournal-of-Biochemistry. 1986, 19: 1-2, 39-42; 7 ref.

A total of 162 day-old chickens were freely given diets with soyabean oilmeal replaced by 0, 11.3, 23, 35 or 48% safflower meal (diets 1 to 5) without or with 0.1, 0.3, 0.4 or 0.5% lysine added to diets 2 to 5, respectively, (diets 6 to 9). Average weight gain was significantly reduced in chickens given diets 3, 4 and 5 (763, 619 and 314 g/chicken, respectively) and feed intake was also significantly reduced in these groups. Feed conversion efficiency was reduced in chickens given diets 4 and 5. Lysine supplementation increased weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion efficiency suggesting that safflower meal may be deficient in lysine. There were no significant differences in dressing percentage and weight of internal organs between groups.