feeding SbSlage
Jo Lambs May
ge Profitable
Feeding soilage or freshly- mated pasture.
c nt -i een forage to lambs may This research finding could
tie economically sound in hu- b e important to farmers m
mid areas where internal para- areas where high-cost land
qte3 of sheep are a major makes frequent pasture rota
ptoblem, the U.S Department tion impractical. Since dany
c f Agriculture reports. farmers practice soiling in
In tests conducted by US- many of these areas, a com-
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.'* DA’s Agricultural Research
Service, lambs fed soilage
made about the same average
daily gain as did lambs on
clean pasture, and they gained
more „ than those on contam-
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bincd dairyjJamb feeding oper
ation might be economically
sound.
Thd soilage feeding experi
ment is part of long-term
USDA research designed to
evaluate various management
piactices for controlling inter
nal parasites in lambs.
At USDA’s Agricultural Re
search Center, Beltsville, Md,
animal husbandman Ivan L.
Lindal and co-workeis divided
437 lambs and their dams into
four treatment groups when
the lambs averaged about 60
days of age. Four days before
going on the experimental
treatments, all ewes were giv
en a therapeutic dose of phen
othiazme.
Lambs in group I were kept
in a barn or drylot at all
times and were fed soilage free
choice plus a limited amount
of pellets. Ewes were kept in
drylot at night and allowed to
graze during the day.
Ewes and lambs in group II
were turned out on pasture
in Apul and at intervals not
exceeding 14 days were moved
to new pasture that had not
been grazed previously during
the year. I
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Ewes and lambs in groups
111 and IV were also turned
on pasture, but they were giv
en free choice among pastures.
Choice of pasture was influ
enced by availability of foi
age, and the two groups ic
giazed their respective pas
tures at frequent intervals
Ewes in group 111 were treat
ed with N F phenothiazine
and ewes in group IV with
purified phenothiazine—the on
ly difference in management
Lambs fed soilage gained
051 pound per day, lambs on
clean pasture gained 053
pound, while lambs on para
site-contaminated pasture gain
ed only 042 pound.
Soilage for group I was cut
daily and average consumption
of soilage per day was meas
ured on a green and dry mat
ter basis During the test, av
erage daily consumption per
lamb increased fiom 3 pounds
(0.65 pound dry matter) m
late April to about 8 pounds
(125 pounds dry mattei) in
late June, when the lambs were
weaned
f arm Prices <ind Mis Gioff came to
(Continued from Page 1) taim in the spiing of 1952
$4 25 per hundredweight the as tenant faimeis, they be
same as last month and 13 came owneis of the faim in
cents higher than last yeai 1963 The faim consists of 100
The index ot prices leceived, acres food and the daity
a measuie ot the trend and l3 then major souice of
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