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Apparatus for the separate collection of faeces and urine from cows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

C. C. Balch
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading
S. Bartlett
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading
V. W. Johnson
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading

Extract

The cost of conducting digestibility trials with cows is high, due to the need for either elaborate equipment for separating faeces and urine or a considerable number of assistants to remain constantly behind the cows catching the excreta as they are voided. Manual collection of excreta was used extensively by earlier workers, and, in a recent report of the most suitable arrangements for experiments using this method, Eheart, Holdaway & Pratt (1945) found that one attendant was necessary for every cow on test with a trained chemist also present in the shed at all times.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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