Sentences with phrase «natural feedstuffs»

Findings from the first phase of the project, incorporating natural feedstuffs into heritage turkeys» diet, will be presented at the International Poultry Science Forum in Atlanta today (Jan. 29) by Arianna Ferguson, a sophomore majoring in Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences.

The trial evaluating natural feedstuffs for their impact on growth performance and carcass yield is just the first phase in evaluating production methods for heritage turkeys, according to Patterson, who pointed out that few studies evaluating the feed intake and performance of heritage - breed turkeys have been done.

The other six pens were fed commercial feed plus 15 percent natural feedstuffs.

The feed mix was designed to encourage the birds to consume the natural feedstuffs, such as insects, mushrooms, forages, berries and nuts.

«Our data suggests that the growth of heritage turkeys can depend on the palatability of the natural feedstuffs.»

The next phase of the Penn State research will involve raising heritage birds in a silvopasture system where they will be able to forage and eat natural feedstuffs as they find them outdoors, instead of predominantly commercial turkey feed in a pen trial.

However, by the time the turkeys were processed at the Penn State Poultry Education and Research Center in December, the birds that consumed natural feedstuffs weighed essentially the same as turkeys in the control group that ate only commercial poultry feed.