Effect of hay pellets, pelleted ear corn or complete pelleted rations on the feedlot performance of lambs
- 1 June 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Animal Science
- Vol. 7 (2) , 233-238
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003356100025642
Abstract
SUMMARY: Eight trials involving 522 fattening lambs were conducted to compare rations of shelled corn and either long or chopped alfalfa hay with complete pelleted rations containing various proportions of concentrate.Feeding lambs on complete pelleted rations that contained 50–100% roughage resulted in increased feed consumption and significantly greater gains. However, efficiency of feed conversion was improved by pelleting in only one trial.Feed consumption and rate of gain were not improved by pelleting ground ear corn. Conversely, lambs fed only pelleted alfalfa hay gained significantly faster than lambs fed only chopped hay.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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