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Voluntary herbage intake and diet selection in Scottish-Blackface ewes suckling twin lambs and grazing perennial ryegrass/white clover swards with or without protein supplementation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

J. J. Hyslop ,
F. A. Kennedy ,
H. F. Adamson  and
R. Keatinge
J. J. Hyslop*
Affiliation:
ADAS Redesdale, Rochester, Otterburn, Newcastle upon Tyne NE19 1SB, UK.
F. A. Kennedy
Affiliation:
ADAS Redesdale, Rochester, Otterburn, Newcastle upon Tyne NE19 1SB, UK.
H. F. Adamson
Affiliation:
ADAS Redesdale, Rochester, Otterburn, Newcastle upon Tyne NE19 1SB, UK.
R. Keatinge
Affiliation:
ADAS Redesdale, Rochester, Otterburn, Newcastle upon Tyne NE19 1SB, UK.
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Email: [email protected]
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Mixed perennial ryegrass and white clover swards are often used as the basis of upland sheep grazing systems. This study’s objective was to examine voluntary herbage intake and diet selection in 30 lactating Scottish-Blackface ewes grazing mixed perennial ryegrass (PRG) and white clover (WC) swards supplemented with or without protein. The work was part of a wider study of nutrition and parasitology in organic sheep systems.

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Sheep Nutrition
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2003 , 2003 , pp. 192
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2003

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