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Cut-and-Carry Feeding of Indigenous Grass in Indonesian Sheep Production: Effect of Amounts of Grass and Rice Bran Offered on Grass Intake and on Yield of Compost Made From Refusals and Excreta

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2017

J C Tanner ,
E Owen ,
H M Winugroho  and
M Gill
J C Tanner
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading, Berks RG6 2AT
E Owen
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading, Berks RG6 2AT
H M Winugroho
Affiliation:
Research Institute for Animal Production, PO Box 221, Ciawi-Bogor, Indonesia
M Gill
Affiliation:
Natural Resources Institute, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB
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West Java sheep are permanently housed and offered manually-harvested grass at 50-60 g dry matter [DM] per kg live weight [M] daily [d]. Flocks (ca. 5 head) are housed on slats, with excreta and feed refusals composted underneath.

In a previous experiment (Tanner, Owen, Winugroho & Gill, 1993) with 18-month old Javanese Thin-Tailed rams, intake of cut-and-carried, indigenous grass increased as the amount offered was increased (25, 50 or 75 g DM offered/kg M.d; intakes were 22.1, 31.7 and 34.9 g DM/kg M.d respectively). Output of compost also increased with increasing amount of grass offered.

Cutting and carrying grass is labour demanding and therefore expensive. Substituting some of the grass with a readily available by-product such as rice bran could reduce feed costs.

In the present experiment, cut-and-carried grass was supplemented with rice bran and the effect upon intake of grass and output of compost measured.

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Tropical Feeds
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1994 , March 1994 , pp. 131
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1994

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Tanner, J C, Owen, E, Winugroho, M & Gill, M 1993. Cut-and-carry feeding of indigenous grasses in Indonesian smallholder sheep production: effect of amount offered on intake and growth, and on output of compost made from refusals and excreta. Animal Production 56:449 (Abstract).Google Scholar
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