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…
Correlations were determined between the crude protein (CP) and lysine or methionine concentrations of grain from wheat (cultivar: palmiet), barley (cultivar: clipper) and triticale (cultivar: usgen 19) grown in the Western Cape region of South Africa. Twenty samples of varying…
A triticale/oat grain mixture (2: 1) was enriched with either a commercially available formula or a locally composed supplement in addition to different protein sources (urea, urea plus fish-meal, urea plus cottonseed oilcake, urea plus bitter lupins or bitter lupins…
Grains from five triticale cultivars on the South African market (Usgen 7; 10; 14; 18; 19) were compared with each other and to maize in enriched mixtures for lambs in a feedlot. The grain was enriched by adding 12% of…
