Protein Supplementation and Wool Growth
A.E. Henderson, J. McG. Bryden, F.E. Mazzitelli and K.E.
Milligan
Lincoln College, Canterbury
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Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production. 1970, 30: 186-201
A brief review is given of utilization of protein by ruminants
and in particular of known means of providing for absorption of
increased quantities or kinds of amino acids. A summary is given of
three experiments concerned with feeding a supplement of
formalin-treated casein to Romney and Corriedale ewes. Nitrogen
retention was greatest when casein was formalin-treated but wool growth
results were variable and no clear pattern of behaviour was evident.
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