La quinua en la alimentación animal

Abstract

Two feeding trials, one with pigs and the other with chickens, were run to assess the necessity for cooking and washing quinna Chenopodium quinoa before feeding Chicks fed a vation containing cooked quinua made gaires equal to those receiving corn and powdered skim milk in place of quinua, Rations containing raw quinua depressed growth of both pigs and chicks Sapons, eliminated by cooking and washing, are thought to be the cause of growth supression. It was found that an extract of pig brain offsets some of the depressing effects of raw quinua. Quinna, after washing and cooking, is a valuable feed product containing protein that appears to approach animal proteins in value.