Canola meal and acid-base balance

Although canola meal is readily accepted in North America as a quality feed ingredient, there are still occasional reports of increased leg problems and reduced performance of birds when canola meal has been substituted for a significant amount of soybean meal protein. meal contains approximately 1.14% sulphur compared with 0.44% in soybean meal. Work reported in the literature demonstrates that increased levels of dietary sulphur can result in reduced bird performance which can be partially alleviated by the addition of calcium. esent report looks further into the question of high dietary sulphur levels in canola meal reducing bird performance due to allocation of dietary acid-base balance.