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South Dakota Beef Report, 1989

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Effect Of Methionine Addition To A Urea-Grain Based Supplement On Digestibility Of Mature Prairie Grass Hay, P.A. Momont, R. J. Pruitt, R. H. Pritchard, P. S. Johnson Jan 1989

Effect Of Methionine Addition To A Urea-Grain Based Supplement On Digestibility Of Mature Prairie Grass Hay, P.A. Momont, R. J. Pruitt, R. H. Pritchard, P. S. Johnson

South Dakota Beef Report, 1989

A digestibility trial was conducted to determine the effect of methionine addition to a grain-urea based supplement on the digestibility of mature prairie hay. Ad libitum hay supplemented with .I Ib supplemental crude protein from either a (1) soybean meal, (2) methionine + urea-grain, (3) sulfur + urea-grain or (4) urea-grain supplement was fed to 20 Hampshire ram lambs. Dry matter, neutral detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber disappearances tended to be higher with methionine or sulfur-urea supplements over urea alone. Diet digestibilities between soybean meal, - methionine and sulfur treatments were similar. Methionine increased apparent nitrogen digestibility of the …