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Cut-and-carry feeding of indigenous grass in indonesian sheep production: effect of amount of grass offered and wilting on intake and yield of compost

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

J C Tanner ,
E Owen ,
H M Winugroho  and
M Gill
J C Tanner
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, The University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading, Berks RG6 2AT
E Owen
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, The 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 et al 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. In another experiment (Tanner et al 1994) supplementing grass offered at 30 g DM/kg M.d with rice bran fed at 30 g/kg M0.75.d achieved the same intake of digestible organic matter as unsupplemented grass offered at 60 g DM/kg M.d and reduced feeding costs by 15%. However, output of compost was reduced by 41% by rice bran supplementation, resulting in an unacceptable reduction in compost monetary-value.

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Sheep Nutrition
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 1995 , March 1995 , pp. 88
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1995

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References

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.Google Scholar
Tanner, J.C, Owen, E., Winugroho, H.M. and Gill, M. 1994. 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. Animal Production, 58: 460.Google Scholar