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The effect of compensatory growth on body composition in sheep

  • 1986
  • Issue: 4
  • Volume: 16
J.C. Greeff, H.H. Meissner, C.Z. Roux & R.J. Janse van Rensburg Page: 162 - 168

Sixty Merino lambs were randomly allotted to one of six feeding levels. The feeding levels were ad libitum (control) and 0,82; 0,72; 0,65; 0,55 and 0,45 of ad libitum. The feeding levels were calculated from the average weekly feed intake…

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Benutting van appelreste in diëte vir lammers en melkkoeie

  • 1986
  • Issue: 4
  • Volume: 16
H.J. van der Merwe, E.L.J. Kleinhans & W.A. Kottler Page: 192 - 196

    Utilization of apple residue in diets for lambs and milking cows The effect of replacing 0%, 33%, 66% and 100% of the maize meal with apple residue in a growth diet containing 45% roughage for lambs was investigated.…

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Beef steers implanted with short, medium and long-acting anabolic compounds grazing natural pasture and finished in feedlot

  • 1988
  • Issue: 2
  • Volume: 18
H.J. Meaker & J.C. Barnard Page: 68 - 71

    Two studies involving 270 yearling steers were conducted to compare four growth promotants (three estrogenic and one androgenic). These represented short, medium and long-acting compounds and were implanted into steers that were grazing natural pasture and were finished…

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Die gebruik van mieliehooi as ruvoerbron in lamafrondingsrantsoene

  • 1988
  • Issue: 3
  • Volume: 18
H.M.I. Schoonraad, S.J. Schoeman, T.M. Laas & B.H. Beukes Page: 113 - 117

The use of mealie hay as roughage source in lamb finishing diets. The influence of supplementation of mature maize plants (6% crude protein; 11,4 MJ DE/kg) with both energy and nitrogen on production aspects of slaughter lambs was investigated. A…

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Short-term responses to selection for parameters of the allometric-autoregressive model

  • 1990
  • Issue: 2
  • Volume: 20
M.M. Scholtz, C.Z. Roux, D.S. de Bruin and S.J. Schoeman Page: 57 - 64

The allometric-autoregressive model describes growth accurately and is useful in the characterization of growth responses. Hence, the potential of the model for selection purposes was investigated. Rats were used in a selection experiment, where selection was practised for slope (b)…

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Lifetime meat production from six different F1 crossbred ewes

  • 1990
  • Issue: 2
  • Volume: 20
J.C. Greeff, C.Z. Roux and G.A. Wyma Page: 71 - 77

The efficiency of meat production with regard to kilogram of lamb weaned per kilogram metabolic mass of ewes at mating of six different Fl crossbred populations, viz. Finnish Landrace x Merino (FL x M), Border Leicester x Merino (BL x…

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Vergelyking van verrykte gars, koring, triticale en mielies vir die afronding van vroegspeenlammers (Kort mededeling)

  • 1990
  • Issue: 1
  • Volume: 20
A.A. Brand en S.W.P. Cloete Page: 37 - 40

Comparison of enriched barley, wheat, triticale and maize for the fattening of early-weaned lambs.  Alkali-ionophoreenriched barley, wheat, triticale and maize were evaluated as diets for the fattening of early-weaned (ca 10 weeks) SA Mutton Merino lambs kept under feedlot conditions.…

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Effect of dietary conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) on the growth and lipid metabolism of geese and fatty acid composition of their

  • 2008
  • Issue: 1
  • Volume: 38
Xu-hui Zhang, Bao-wei Wang, Lei Wang, Fang-yu Long, Zhi-gang Yang, Shi-hao Yu, Ya-chao Wang, Xiao-xiao Wei, Li-zhen Jing and Guang-lei Liu Page: 12 - 20

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) oil supplementation on the growth performance and lipid metabolism in geese and the fatty acid concentrations in their liver and muscle tissues. One hundred and…

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Growth, feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of Karakas and crossbred lambs (F1) (Ile de France x Akkaraman (G1) x Ka

  • 2004
  • Issue: 4
  • Volume: 34
O. Gokdal, H. Ulker, F. Karakus, F. Cengiz, C. Temur and H. Handil Page: 223 - 132

In this study the possibilities of using the Ile de France x Akkaraman (G1) genotype (IDFAG1) in improving the growth performance and carcass characteristics of fat-tailed Karakas sheep raised in rural farm conditions in the Van Region of Eastern Anatolia,…

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