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Effect of Feeding Raw Sugar on Growth, Performance and Rumen Fluid Parameters of Fattening Beef Cattle¹

University of Hawaii, Honolulu

Abstract

The concept of utilizing sugar as a source of energy in animal diets is not new. Lewis Ware (1902) stated that use of sugar for cattle feeding commenced in the 1850's in Continental Europe; however, Ware (1902) further noted that although animals such as horses and pigs could consume fairly large amounts of sugar, ruminants were apt to have digestive complications, including decreased digestibility.

Most of the experimental work done with feeding sugar to cattle has been with diets very low in sugar (Goo and Henke, unpublished data; Henke, unpublished data; Mitchell and Hamilton, 1940). However, Beardsley (1968) reported that steers did well when fed a concentrate mixture that contained up to 40% sugar.

Raw sugar is frequently available on the world market at a low price per unit of energy. It is the unrefined sugar obtained from the crystallization vats of the sugar mills with the molasses expressed by centrifugation.

¹ Journal Series No. 1350 of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station.