A study on fattening Ethiopian sheep. I. Performance of highland lambs under feed-lot conditions
Two trials were performed to study the fattening performance of Ethiopian highland sheep under feed-lot conditions. Three diets were tried; A-20 % hay, B -35% hay and C-50% hay. Trial I had the three diets represented on 84 non-descript highland all-milk-tooth ram lambs, while in Trial II, only, die...
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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1979
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/66846 |
| Sumario: | Two trials were performed to study the fattening performance of Ethiopian highland sheep under feed-lot conditions. Three diets were tried; A-20 % hay, B -35% hay and C-50% hay. Trial I had the three diets represented on 84 non-descript highland all-milk-tooth ram lambs, while in Trial II, only, diets A and C were tried on 47 highland Horro ram lambs. The average initial veight was 20.4 kg in Trial II. Average daily gain differed significantly (p |
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