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Title: Can the voluntary feed intake of what straw in sheep be improved by mixing with saltbush (Atriplex Amnicola)? / Atiq-Ur-Rehman, J.B. MacKintosh, J.A. Fortune and B.E. Warren.
Author: Atiq-Ur-Rehman. ; Warren, B. E. ; Australian Society of Animal Production Biennial Conference (20th : 1994 : Perth, W.A.) ; Mackintosh, J. B. ; Fortune, J. A.
Series: Animal production in Australia, ; v. 20.
Description: p. 175-177.
Subject: Feed intake. ; Wethers. ; Western Australia. ; Voluntary intake. ; Sheep. ; Sheep feeding. ; Atriplex amnicola.
Notes: 2 tables.
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[Uniform title:Animal production in Australia : proceedings of the Australian Society of Animal Production twentieth biennial conference, the University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, July 1994.]
ISBN/ISSN: 07285965;
Type: Journal
Abstract: In this study the effect of adding saltbush to a wheat straw diet on voluntary feed intake (VFI) of sheep is defined. Twenty manture Merino wethers housed in metobolism crates were fed diets of wheat straw and saltbush for 4 weeks. In general the mixing of saltbush with wheat straw had a positive effect on the VFI of sheep but little interaction was found between the 2 feeds. The apparent dry matter digestibility of mixed diets was higher than that of wheat straw except on the diet with 25% saltbush. The
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