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Studies on the nutritive value of the diet selected by grazing sheep VII. A note on hand plucking as a technique for estimating dietary composition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

J. P. Langlands
J. P. Langlands
Affiliation:
C.S.I.R.O., Pastoral Research Laboratory, Armidale, N.S.W. 2350, Australia
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Summary

The digestibility and N contents of samples collected by oesophageally-fistulated sheep and by hand plucking were compared. Hand plucking overestimated nutritive value at high levels of digestibility and N content, and underestimated nutritive value when this was low. The differences between fistula and hand-plucked samples varied between pastures. Precision was increased when samples were combined between operators.

Type
Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , October 1974 , pp. 249 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1974

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