
%0 Journal Article
%A Hall, DG 
%A Keys, MJ 
%T Evaluation of poultry manure as a nitrogen supplement to diets of oats and roughage for sheep
%J Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
%D 1980/08/01
%V 20
%N 105
%P 427-432
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/EA9800427
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/EA9800427 
%X Four diets based on wheaten straw and oats, and three diets based on lucerne hay and oats, were fed ad lib. to individually-penned sheep. Some of the diets were supplemented with dried poultry manure (DPM) or sunflower seed meal (SFM). On the wheaten straw and oats diets, growth rate was 145 g/head day-1 with no supplement and 179 and 225 g/head day-1 when DPM and SFM, respectively, were included in the diet at a rate of about 17%. When DPM was included at 32%, intake and growth rate were reduced. On the lucerne hay and oats diets, there was no difference in sheep production with no supplement, or with DPM or SFM at a rate of about 17% of the diet. Sheep on SFM-supplemented diets produced up to 2.4 g/head day-1 more wool than those on DPM diets. The DPM was considered to be a useful nitrogen supplement for roughages such as wheaten straw, which are low in crude protein. 
