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The effects of undecorticated cotton cake added to a grass diet fed to sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1962

T. L. Dodsworth  and
C. Ball
T. L. Dodsworth
Affiliation:
North of Scotland College of Agriculture, Aberdeen
C. Ball
Affiliation:
North of Scotland College of Agriculture, Aberdeen
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Results are given from two digestibility trials in which the following three diets were fed to sheep: (i) grass only, (ii) grass+5 oz. cotton cake daily, (iii) grass+10 oz. cotton cake daily.

In the first trial the average dry-matter content of the grass was low (approx. 14%), intake was low and the supplements were eaten in addition to the grass. In the second trial where the dry-matter content (approx. 20%) of the grass and the intake were higher, the cake supplements reduced herbage consumption.

The feeding of cake did not have any significant effect on the dry-matter percentage in the faeces but depressed the digestibility of the dry matter, crude protein, crude fibre and nitrogen-free extract in the diets including cake and reduced their starch equivalent and total digestible nutrient values.

No evidence was found to support the recommendation that undecorti-cated cotton cake should be fed to grazing animals.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 1962 , pp. 227 - 232
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1962

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