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Effect of Feeding Milk Replacers with Varying Amounts of Fat for Hothouse Lamb Production¹

New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick

Abstract

Three trials were conducted investigating the effects of feeding milk replacers to lambs. Trial I compared the growth of lambs nursing ewes with lambs fed a milk replacer. The lambs fed the milk replacer grew at the rate of 0.49 lb. per day, while those naturally nursed grew at the rate of 0.52 lb. per day over the 10-week experimental period. Trial II compared the performance of groups of lambs fed a reconstituted skimmilk ration, one group receiving an additional 20% fat in the ration. The lambs in the fat-supplemented lot grew faster, survived better, and had more desirable hothouse lamb carcasses than the lambs receiving the low-fat basal ration. Trial III compared the performance of two groups of lambs fed milk replacers containing 12% and 31% fat, respectively. The lambs receiving the high-fat ration grew faster, were more efficient in feed conversion, and produced higher grading hothouse lamb carcasses.

¹ Paper of the Journal Series, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers, the State University, Department of Animal Husbandry, New Brunswick, N. J.

² Acknowledgement is made to Donald G. Gross, Shepherd, Rutgers, the State University, without whose capable assistance this work could not have been accomplished.