Effects of feeding vomitoxin contaminated wheat on the performance of broiler chickens.
Two experiments were conducted to ascertain the effect of feeding vomitoxin to meat-type chickens. In each experiment 360 day-old commercial chickens of the Shaver strain were housed in Petersime batteries for 28 days and fed diets containing 0, 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60% of wheat containing 3.00 ppm of vomitoxin. Analysis indicated that the vomitoxin levels in the diets ranged from less than .02 (control) to 1.87 ppm. Each diet was fed in either the all-mash or the crumbled form. There was no evidence of feed refusal or emesis nor were there any significant effects on mortality, body weight gain, live body weight, feed consumption, or feed conversion when these diets were fed. Subjecting the feeds to the pelleting crumbling process had no effect on the level of vomitoxin found in the finished feed. No organ damage from feeding vomitoxin was evident.
D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D002645:Chickens / Q000502:physiology*; D004032:Diet; D004361:Drug Tolerance; D005506:Food Contamination; D009026:Mortality; D012717:Sesquiterpenes / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014255:Trichothecenes / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014908:Triticum
D012717:Sesquiterpenes; D014255:Trichothecenes; C007262:deoxynivalenol