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A Review of Recent Mineral Research with Sheep¹

University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706

Abstract

It is most difficult in a review of this nature to summarize and compare nutritive requirements of sheep based on research in many areas of the world and to make the results applicable to this region. Sheep raising in the Midwest area of the United States is based primarily on lambs per ewe, rapid growth of lambs to heavy weights, or, in other words, on meat produced per day of age or ewe units. This is not typical sheep husbandry throughout the world.

This area of the United States is perhaps not as plagued with mineral deficiencies as some other regions of this country or the world. With the help of the feed industry, a reasonable job of supplementing minerals to sheep is being accomplished. Some minerals are "over-supplemented", and some that should be added to the diet are not. However, one cannot leave this subject of minerals for sheep without the feeling that too often minerals carry the blame for inadequacies of energy or management.

¹ Presented at the Midwestern Section Meeting of the American Society of Animal Science, Chicago, Illinois, November 27 and 28, 1970.

² Professor, Meat and Animal Science Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706.