Flax is grown for its seeds, which can be ground into amealor turned intolinseedoil, a product used as a nutritional supplement and as an ingredient in many wood-finishing products.
Linseedoilmealdepressed thegrowthofchickswhen fed at a level of 30% of the diet. Water treatment and autoclaving were effective in destroying thegrowthdepressing factor while dry heat was ineffective.
Levels of 5 and 10%linseedmealwere less effective in counteracting selenosis than was 20%. Fractionation studies showed that a protective factor inlinseedmealwas extracted by methanol and ethanol and was not destroyed by autoclaving.
Ackerson and co-workers (1938) compared cottonseedmealandlinseedmealwith other protein supplements in thechickration.Linseedmealproduced lessgrowththan cottonseedmeal, and both protein sources were inferior to dried buttermilk or soybeanmeal.
Effect of feedinglinseedoil ongrowthperformance and nutrients utilization efficiency in broilerchicks.
oilmealforchickgrowthas effectively as did unheated lysine. Evans and Butts (1948) suggested that when soybean oilmealis overheated, lysine is made biologically unavailable in two different ways.
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mealand soybean oilmealwere added to the diet at the expense of "cerelose." RESULTS. As shownin Table 1, but more strikingly in Figure 1,growthof thechicksfed ade-quate diets containing different levels oflinseedmealwas negatively correlated.
