Studies on some factors influencing food intake in sheep

M.J. Ulyatt

Plant Chemistry Division, DSIR, Palmerston North

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Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production. 1964, 24: 43-56

(1) It was shown that it is possible to product significant intake depressions in sheep by intraruminal infusions of acetic, propionic and butyric acids. Plane of nutrition of the animal plays a large role in the effect obtained. (2) A situation where normal intake pattern appeared to be over-ruled by a transient unpalatability is described. Short-rotation ryegrass was rendered unpalatable to sheep by an accumulation of nitrogenous compounds in the grass following unusual environmental conditions.

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