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The effect of ambient temperature on feed intake and diet selection in growing lambs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

M.R. Cropper  and
D.P. Poppi
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Lambs are known to change their feed intake in relation to environmental temperature (Blaxter, 1962). However, their ability to select a non-limiting diet, when free-choice fed, has only been investigated in a thermoneutral environment (Cropper, 1987). The aim of this experiment was to test the idea that, at low and high ambient temperature, (a) feed intake would increase in the cold and decrease in the hot, relative to a thermoneutral control, and that (b) the protein content of the diet selected would be lower and higher respectively.

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Sheep
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1992 , March 1992 , pp. 166
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1992

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