Voluntary intake and digestion in red deer and sheep

P.F. Fennessy, G.J. Greer, D.A. Forss

Invermay Agricultural Research Centre, Mosgiel

Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production. 1980, 40: 158-162

The ad libitum intake and digestion of a high-quality pelleted feed and a mature meadow hay by young stags and young rams during winter were compared. At the same intake the deer appeared to digest the structural carbohydrates, hemicellulose and cellulose more efficiently than sheep.

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