title: Effect of dietary protein deficiency on the performance of turkeys and chickens.
abstract: Two field occurrences of protein-deficiency disease were reported in turkeys and chickens. The disease caused unthriftiness, poor growth, and the exhibition of pica in flocks of 15-week-old pedigree large white turkeys, and it resulted in a sharp drop (18%) in egg production in a flock of 60-week-old white leghorn layers. In each case, the disease was cured by replacing the protein-deficient diet with a protein-sufficient one.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005260:Female; D010058:Oviposition; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011488:Protein Deficiency / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014422:Turkeys
chemical_list: D004044:Dietary Proteins