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Digestion by sheep of diets containing different ratios of grass silage to partially-fried potato chips

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

A. I. Mathers ,
J. A Rooke  and
R. Crawshaw
A. I. Mathers
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture, 581 King Street, Aberdeen AB9 1UD
J. A Rooke
Affiliation:
Animal and Feed Technology Department, SAC, 581 King Street, Aberdeen AB9 1UD
R. Crawshaw
Affiliation:
Animal Feed Research and Consultancy, 25 High St., Ramsey, Huntingdon, PE17 1AE
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In preparing potato chips for the fast food industry a proportion of the material produced is rejected. Although the composition of these partially-fried chips would suggest that the chips should be fed to non-ruminant livestock, the bulky wet nature of the material precludes this option for many. Therefore a substantial proportion of the chips produced are fed to ruminants especially to growing cattle. Little is known about the rumen digestion of such materials. The aim of the experiment was therefore to evaluate potato chips as a ruminant feed.

Type
Sheep Nutrition
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 1995 , March 1995 , pp. 91
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1995

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