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The use of cod liver oil in the feeding of farm animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

J. C. Drummond
Affiliation:
From the Biochemical Department, Institute of Physiology, University College, London
S. S. Zilva
Affiliation:
The Lister Institute, London
J. Golding
Affiliation:
The National Institute for Dairy Research, Reading.

Extract

In an empirical manner cod liver oil has been used for many years as an occasional food for farm animals. Generally speaking, its use has been chiefly confined to the rearing of calves and to improving the condition of horses. It is difficult to glean from the literature of animal husbandry information about the use of this oil, but it would appear that whilst the majority of authorities favour its employment in small amounts in special cases others are inclined to regard the oil with suspicion. Thus, Campbell (1900) (i) recommends cod liver oil as an efficient substitute for cream in the rearing of calves; a conclusion that was confirmed in a later publication from the Leeds Station (Seton, 1901) (2). These reports warn users against the inferior grades of oil and show that if good preparations are used there is no detrimental effect on the flesh when animals are afterwards slaughtered as bullocks.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1923

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