i know eh... heres some more info from feedipedia about feather meal and poultry meal. Interesting stuff...
Feather meal:
http://www.feedipedia.org/node/213
Poultry
Broilers and laying hens
Pullets fed feather meal was found to grow satisfactorily, the addition of methionine was found to improve performance (Khajarern et al., 1982a). The effect of supplementing feather meal with 0.2 to 0.5 % methionine was found to increase carcass quality in broilers and egg weight and shell thickness in layers (Miranda et al., 1981)
Ducks
Feather meal can provide up to 50 % of the supplemental protein for young growing duckling, 100 % for older growing ducks and 50 % in ducks that are laying (Sucheep Suksupath, 1980).
Poultry Meal:
http://www.feedipedia.org/node/214
Poultry
Poultry by-product meal can be used in poultry diets at up to 7 to 10% without impairing bird performance. However, diets containing poultry by-product meal should be formulated to take into account the fact that the digestibilities of amino acids are lower than those of soybean meal (Bandegan et al., 2010)
When introduced at up to 4% in balanced broiler diets, performance was unchanged (Kirkpinar et al., 2004). In previous experiments, the same results were observed when including poultry by-products up to 10% in broiler diets (Mendonca et al., 1989; Escalona et al., 1987). In laying hen diets, poultry by-products have no detrimental effects on performance and egg quality up to an incorporation level of between 5% (Senkoylu et al., 2005) and 7.5% (Hosseinzadeh et al., 2010).
Poultry by-products can be extruded with cereal grains, yielding an ingredient with a higher protein value than that of meat and bone meal (Aimiuwu et al., 2006).
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