Turkey poult tolerance to diets containing deoxynivalenol (vomitoxin) and salinomycin.
Feed taken from a commercial turkey farm where poults had refused to eat the feed and high mortality had occurred was analyzed and found to contain .81 mg/kg vomitoxin and 2.2 mg/kg salinomycin. The present four experiments investigated the effects of diets containing salinomycin at 0, 2.2, 5.5, 11, and 22 mg/kg and vomitoxin at 0, 2.2, and 4.4 mg/kg. A factorial design with vomitoxin at 0 and 4.4 mg/kg and salinomycin at 0 and 22 mg/kg was used in Experiment 4. Poults fed the suspect commercial diet had significantly lower feed consumption and higher motality than poults fed a control diet (P less than .05). Poults (0 to 3 wk of age) fed diets containing vomitoxin (4.4 mg/kg), salinomycin (22 mg/kg), or both showed no significant decrease in feed consumption, body weight gain, or viability.
Manley
R W
RW
Department of Poultry Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061.
Hulet
R M
RM
Meldrum
J B
JB
Larsen
C T
CT
D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects*; D004361:Drug Tolerance; D004435:Eating / Q000187:drug effects; D011714:Pyrans / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology; D012717:Sesquiterpenes / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014255:Trichothecenes / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014422:Turkeys / Q000254:growth & development*; D000095662:Polyether Polyketides
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D011714:Pyrans; D012717:Sesquiterpenes; D014255:Trichothecenes; C010327:salinomycin; D000095662:Polyether Polyketides; C007262:deoxynivalenol