Indian Journal of Animal Nutrition
  • Year: 2004
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue: 2

Nutritional evaluation of oats (Avena sativa L.) hay in sheep and goats

  • Author:
  • Ghanshyara Meena, P. C. Murdia, P. C. Reger, A. K. Gupta
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 118 to 119

Department of Animal Production, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur-313001, India

*A.B. Complex, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal -132001

Abstract

Oats hay prepared by sun curing was chopped and fed as sole feed to sheep and goats (5 each). The oats hay contained 91.7, 8.2, 40.0, 1.8, 43.0 and 8.3% OM, CP, CF, EE, NFE and total ash respectively. The daily DMI as % BW was 3.23 ± 0.09 in sheep and 2.68 ± 0.09 in goats respectively. The digestibility of most of the nutrients from oats hay was significtnly higher in sheep than goats. Utilisation of nutrient from oats hay was better in sheep than goats.

Keywords

Oats hay, Nutritive value, Goats, Sheep