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The Effect of the Corn-Alfalfa Hay Ratio on the Digestibility of the Different Nutrients by Sheep

Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

In a study of the utilization of corn-alfalfa hay rations, four yearling wethers were each fed each of three mixtures in which corn, provided 25%, 50% and 75% of the mixture. Apparent digestion coefficients for dry matter, crude protein, ether extract, crude fiber and nitrogen-free-extracts were determined, as well as metabolizable energy. As the percentage of corn in the ration was increased, the apparent digestibility of the complete ration increased for all the nutrients except crude protein in one instance and crude fiber in another.

On the basis of the results of this trial it appears that high concentrate rations are the more efficiently utilized by sheep.

¹ Graduate students and Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry, repectively. The data reported herein were taken from two Masters Theses submitted by the senior authors in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science at the University of Kentucky. Acknowledgment is made to Dr. R. F. Elliott and Dr. W. P. Garrigus for the direction of this study.

The investigation reported in this paper is in connection with a project of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station and is published by permission of the Director.