ANS 42 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Essential Amino Acid, Lysine, Cockatiel
23 Aug 2016
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Difficult to feed when young - eat 1/10 of a gram. Feed by regurgitation - parents must feed them. Look at ratio of food to water experiment - Very dilute solids = very little mortality in the first days. The requirement of water changes over time. First few days of birth = require more water than later days. Parents feed the kids from youngest to oldest. Manage to give the younger ones more water (needed) than the older. As the level of protein goes up, growth goes up as well. Reach a peak of 20% protein in cockatiel nutrients. Always food seeking - 15% protein eater o. Behavior changes depending on protein amount: no other anomaly other than behavior. 10% protein eater - wrong proportions, half of them dead. 5% protein eater - extremely small, not enough protein, most were dead.
