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Table 8 Lactation performance of supplemented1or unsupplemented crossbred dairy ewes2grazing a legume-grass pasture

From: Dairy sheep production research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA – a review

Trait

Unsupplemented

Supplemented

Test day milk yield, kg

1.36 ± 0.04b

1.59 ± 0.04a

Test day FPCM3 yield, kg

0.95 ± 0.04b

1.09 ± 0.04a

Milk fat,%

6.00 ± 0.09c

5.75 ± 0.09d

Milk protein,%

5.04 ± 0.04a

4.84 ± 0.04b

Milk urea nitrogen, mg/dL

24.9 ± 1.58

25.1 ± 1.51

  1. 10.82 kg DM/d of a 16.5% crude protein mixture of corn and a soybean meal-based high-protein pellet.
  2. 2Multiparous crossbred ewes of East Friesian and Lacaune breeding, n = 28 ewes per treatment.
  3. 36.5% fat-corrected and 5.8% protein-corrected milk yield.
  4. a,bMeans within a row with no superscript in common are different (P < 0.01).
  5. c,dMeans within a row with no superscript in common are different (P < 0.10).
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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

ISSN: 2049-1891