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The Utilization of Ammoniated Cane Molasses by Sheep

Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station¹

Abstract

The apparent digestibility of nitrogen in ammoniated cane molasses (ACM) was determined in two digestion and nitrogen balance trials with sheep. The ACM which contained the equivalent of 33% protein was added to low- and medium-protein basal rations in an amount which supplied 49% and 38%, respectively, of the total ration nitrogen. The apparent digestibility of the ACM nitrogen, calculated by difference, was 50% with the low protein basal and 42% with the medium-protein basal. Nitrogen balance was improved, although still negative, on the supplemented low-protein basal. Nitrogen retention was increased on the supplemented medium-protein ration.

Mild and extreme types of stimulation were produced by feeding high levels of these products. An ammoniated "high test" molasses in a fattening ration gave unfavorable results.

¹ Departments of Animal Husbandry and Agricultural Chemistry, Stillwater.

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