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Voluntary intake of low-protein diets by ruminants: II. Intake of food by sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

R. C. Elliott
R. C. Elliott
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Henderson Research Station, Salisbury, Rhodesia
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1. A study was made of the voluntary intake of hay of low nutritive value by sheep when given four different amounts of concentrate foods (9, 18, 27 and 36 g/kg W0.73/day) each providing three levels of protein (1·3, 2·6 and 3·9 g DCP/kg W0.73/day). Hay alone was offered as a separate treatment. The trial was designed as an incomplete Latin square with thirteen treatments, thirteen sheep and four replicates.

2. Voluntary intake of low-protein hay by sheep was invariably lowered when they were given increasing amounts of concentrates. Hay consumption was also affected by level of supplementary protein; intakes increasing sharply from the lowest level provided (1·3 g DCP/kg metabolic body weight) to maximal intakes when about 3 g DCP/kg W0.73 were given to the sheep.

3. Total food and digestible energy (DE) intakes were similarly affected by changes in dietary protein level. Successive increments in concentrate allowances, except at the highest level of concentrate input, caused corresponding reductions in hay intake so that total food consumption remained similar (when protein level was kept constant). In consequence, DE intakes rose to maxima when approximately 30 g concentrate/kg W0.73/day were fed to the sheep.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , December 1967 , pp. 383 - 390
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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