Technique of Weighing the Grazing Animal
- 1 January 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production
- Vol. 1954, 3-16
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0369852100001330
Abstract
In pasture research and feeding trials using the growing or fattening animal to provide a measure of output, a first essential is the accurate determination of liveweight. Recent reports of trials using bullocks, sheep and dairy stock (Grassl. Res. Sta. Rep., 1953; Waite et al., 1952; Dodsworth and Campbell, 1953) have emphasised that liveweight gains can be misleading when a large and unknown proportion of the gain is due to contents of the stomachs and intestines. This ‘ fill ’ in the capacious alimentary tract of the ruminant provides a large source of experimental error in the measurement of liveweight; it can also obscure the trend of useful liveweight gain, i.e. carcass increase.Keywords
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