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J. Anim Sci. 1983. 57:511-518.
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Effects of Alcohol Treatments on Utilization of Soybean Meal by Lambs and Chicks

P. J. van der Aar1,2,, L. L. Berger, G. C. Fahey, Jr. and S. C. Loerch3

University of Illinois, Urbana 61801,4

Abstract

Two lamb nitrogen (N) balance studies and two chick bioassays were performed to evaluate utilization of alcohol-treated soybean meal (SBM). In the first study, 30 and 50% (v/v) propanol, 30% (v/v) isopropanol and 50% (v/v) ethanol treatments did not improve utilization of SBM protein in corn cob-corn starch-SBM diets fed to lambs. However, in the second study, incorporation of 40% (v/v) propanoltreated SBM in a corn cob-corn-SBM diet improved SBM utilization in that lambs retained more N, excreted less N in urine and had lower blood urea N (BUN) levels. Addition of 1% sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) to the diet nullified the positive effect of the propanol treatment. Replacing dietary starch with dextrose as a source of readily available carbohydrate on an equal glucose unit basis tended to improve N retention and to lower urinary N and BUN levels. Replacement of starch with dextrose did not affect N retention by lambs fed SBM or SBM treated with 40% (v/v) propanol. Substitution of alcohol-treated SBM for untreated SBM in a practical corn-SBM diet fed to chicks beginning at 8 d of age did not affect animal performance. Alcohol treatment did not affect protein efficiency ratio of chicks fed a starch-dextrose basal diet in which SBM provided 10% crude protein (CP).

Footnotes

1 The senior author gratefully acknowledges the Stichting Fonds Landbouw Export Bureau, 1916/1918, Wageningen, The Netherlands, for partial financial assistance.

2 Present address: CLO-Instituut voor de Veevoeding ‘De Schothorst’, Meerkoeteweg 26, 8218 N A Lelystad, The Netherlands.

3 Present address: Ohio Agr. Res. and Devel. Center, Wooster 44691.

4 Dept. of Anim. Sci., 126 Anim. Sci. Lab.






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