Table 4 Amounts of concentrate, grass hay and pasture consumed by lambs and herbage allowance of pasture in Inner Mongolia, China.

From: Diet selection and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid deposition in lambs as affected by restricted time at pasture

Item

Treatment1

2H

4H

8H

12H

Concentrate2 (kg day−1)

0.40

0.27

0.23

0.12

Grass hay (kg day−1)

0.34

0.25

0.13

0

Pasture (kg DM day−1)

0.62

0.89

0.99

1.24

Total DM intake (kg day−1)

1.36

1.41

1.35

1.36

CP intake (g DM day−1)

178

185

181

181

ME intake (MJ day−1)

13.8

14.1

13.4

13.1

NDF intake (g DM day−1)

645

762

750

836

Herbage allowance (kg DM ha−1)

992

953

951

932

  1. 1Treatments: 2H = 2-h access to pasture; 4H = 4-h access to pasture; 8H = 8-h access to pasture; 12H = 12-h access to pasture (control). 2The concentrate consisted of 63% chopped maize, 10% wheat bran, 10% soybean meal, 8% cottonseed meal, 8% rapeseed meal and 1% premix. The premix contained (per kg) 10500 IU vitamin A, 2110 IU vitamin D3, 43 mg vitamin E, 40 mg Mn, 32 mg Fe, 95 mg Zn, and 16 mg Cu. DM = dry matter; CP = crude protein; ME = metabolizable energy; NDF = neutral detergent fibre.
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