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Technique of Weighing the Grazing Animal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

J. C. Tayler
J. C. Tayler*
Affiliation:
The Grassland Research Institute, Hurley, Berks
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In pasture research and feeding trials using the growing or fattening animal to provide a measure of output, a first essential is the accurate determination of liveweight. Recent reports of trials using bullocks, sheep and dairy stock (Grassl. Res. Sta. Rep., 1953; Waite et al., 1952; Dodsworth and Campbell, 1953) have emphasised that liveweight gains can be misleading when a large and unknown proportion of the gain is due to contents of the stomachs and intestines. This ‘ fill ’ in the capacious alimentary tract of the ruminant provides a large source of experimental error in the measurement of liveweight; it can also obscure the trend of useful liveweight gain, i.e. carcass increase.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production , Volume 1954 , 1954 , pp. 3 - 16
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1954

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