PERFORMANCE OF MADRAS RED LAMBS FED WITH COMPLETE RATIONS OF VARYING PROPORTION OF ROUGHAGE TO CONCENTRATE RATIOS
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2007
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An experiment was conducted to assess the growth performance and carcass traits of
Madras red lambs under feedlot system with complete diet of three different roughage to
concentrate ratios of 60:40 (High forage- HF), 50150 (medium forage MF), 40:60 (low forage
- LF). Madras red lambs (24) weaned at the age of 2 months were randomly allotted to four
groups of six each viz. HF group, MF group, LF group and control group (grazing with supple-
mentation). Slaughter studies were conducted at the end of the experiment The lambs raised
under low forage diet (LF) had significantly (P<0.0l) higher body weight and average daily
gain than the other treatment groups.