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A note on the use of skim-milk in the feeding of store-lambs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

E. Cresswell
Affiliation:
The Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen
J. C. Gill
Affiliation:
The Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen
C. Fraser
Affiliation:
The Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen
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From time to time in the United Kingdom and other countries skim-milk is locally in plentiful supply and very moderately priced. It is of course successfully utilised in the fattening of pigs, but it seemed to us that it might also be a useful feed for store sheep. Two feasibility studies were therefore carried out in 1964.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1968

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