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Equipment and housing for intake and digestibility studies with large numbers of wethers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

D. J. Minson  and
R. Milford
D. J. Minson
Affiliation:
Division of Tropical Pastures, C.S.I.R.O., Cooper Laboratory, Lawes, Queensland, Australia
R. Milford
Affiliation:
Division of Tropical Pastures, C.S.I.R.O., Cooper Laboratory, Lawes, Queensland, Australia
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In many nutritional experiments with cut pasture the voluntary intake and digestibility is determined with pen-fed sheep. However, the voluntary intakes of sheep are extremely variable, the between-animal coefficient of variation varying between 13·1% and 10·5% (Blaxter, Wainman & Wilson, 1961; Minson, Harris, Raymond & Milford, 1964). Thus each pasture cut must be fed to large numbers of animals if differences between pasture species and varieties are to be detected with significance. (Heaney, Pritchard & Pigden, 1968.)

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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 71 , Issue 3 , December 1968 , pp. 381 - 383
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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