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The intake and digestion of high and low digestibility ryegrass hays by South American camelids and sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

Judith A. Riley ,
D.H. Baker  and
G. Moseley
Judith A. Riley
Affiliation:
Institute of Grassland and Environmental ResearchPlas Gogerddan Aberystwyth Dyfed SY23 3EB
D.H. Baker
Affiliation:
Institute of Grassland and Environmental ResearchPlas Gogerddan Aberystwyth Dyfed SY23 3EB
G. Moseley
Affiliation:
Institute of Grassland and Environmental ResearchPlas Gogerddan Aberystwyth Dyfed SY23 3EB
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The use of South American camelids, as producers of fine fibres, has been proposed as a means of agricultural diversification. Relatively little is known however, of their nutrition and digestive ability under U.K. conditions. The present study was undertaken to determine if South American camelids (llama x guanaco) differ from sheep in terms of the voluntary intake and digestibility of contrasting forages.

Two chaffed ryegrass hays of high (A) and low (B) nutritive value were fed ad libitum to six animals of each species for two periods of 22 days in a cross-over design.

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Ruminant Metabolism
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1993: Winter meeting , March 1993 , pp. 184
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1993

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