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A note on the nutritive value of wild oats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

A. Barranco ,
D. J. Morgan ,
B. S. Capper  and
L. M. Ogilvie
A. Barranco
Affiliation:
Tropical Products Institute, 56/62 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8LU
D. J. Morgan
Affiliation:
Tropical Products Institute, 56/62 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8LU
B. S. Capper
Affiliation:
Tropical Products Institute, 56/62 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8LU
L. M. Ogilvie
Affiliation:
Tropical Products Institute, 56/62 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8LU
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Abstract

The nutritive value of wild oats has been examined in two trials with growing rats. Feed consumption was reduced with diets containing 50 % wild oats and dry-matter digestibility was lower (76 and 73 %) with two diets containing 25 and 50 % wild oats compared with diets containing 25 and 50% barley (80·2 and 81·1 %). Live-weight gain was depressed when diets contained more than 45 % wild oats and it can be predicted that growth and feed conversion ratios of mono-gastric animals fed on diets containing high levels of wild oats are liable to be affected adversely. Biochemical studies indicated that any reduction in growth rate could not be attributed readily to specific toxic effects.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , August 1978 , pp. 129 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1978

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