Protein Requirement of Yearling White-Tailed Deer
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 43 (4) , 872-879
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3808270
Abstract
In each of 2 experiments, 6 different yearling white-tailed deer (O. virginianus) were fed 6 equicaloric concentrate diets with varying crude protein content. Maintenance requirement for protein was computed to be met by a diet containing 5.8 .+-. 2.0% crude protein (moisture-free basis). Each additional unit of dietary N resulted in 0.23 .+-. 0.01 units increase in retained body N and 0.66 .+-. 0.03 units increase in urinary N loss. Metabolic fecal N component was estimated to be 0.53 g/100 g dry matter consumed.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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