Chickens prefer animal protein diets

Vegetable protein diets are cheaper and safer than animal protein diets but do broiler chickens like them equally? And is their ­performance the same or better? Australian researchers came up with an answer at the World Poultry Congress in Brazil. Their ?conclusion, as they call it, is a setback for the industry. By M.M. Bhuiyan, and P.A. Iji, School of Environmental & Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia and G. Clatworthy, Inghams Enterprise, Leppingt