A diverse diet increases animal growth performance and carcass yield of grazing lambs.

ABSTRACT: The current experiments were conducted across two lamb finishing seasons (2019 [experiment 1; Exp1] and 2020 [experiment 2; Exp2]). In both experiments lambs were provided a monotonous (MON) diet (annual ryegrass [Lolium multiflorum L.] during 2019 and perennial ryegrass [L. perenne L.] and white clover [Trifolium repens L.] during 2020) or a diverse (DIV) diet composed of spatially separated strips sown to chicory (Chicorium intybus L.), plantain (Plantago lanceolata L.), perennial ryegrass, lucerne (Medicago sativa L.), and dock (Rumex obtusifolius). During Exp1, the DIV lambs had a stocking rate (SR) of either 80, 95, 100, or 110 m²/lamb/wk, whereas the MON lambs had a 100 m²/lamb/w

SUBMITTER: Beck MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11285148 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature