Nutrient requirement for wool production

NUTRIENT REQUIREMENT FOR WOOL PRODUCTION

Wool production

  • Because of special importance of sulphur for wool production, specific experiments have been conducted on sulphur requirements. These requirements for wool production have been derived from data on experiments conducted at CSWRI, Avikanagar.

Daily nutrient requirements of sheep for wool production (ICAR, 1998)

B.Wt (kg)
Kg
W0.75
DM
(g)
DM
% of b.wt
DCP
(g)
Energy
TDN (g)
Energy
ME (Mcal)
Ca
(g)
P
(g)
S
(g)
20
9.5
730
3.1
40
330
1.19
1.5
1.0
1.7
25
870
3.5
47
390
1.41
1.7
1.1
2.1
30
12.8
1000
3.3
54
450
1.62
2.0
1.3
2.4
35
1100
3.1
60
500
1.80
2.2
1.5
2.6
40
15.9
1230
3.1
67
555
2.00
2.5
1.6
2.9
45
1350
3.0
73
610
2.20
2.7
1.8
3.2
50
18.8
1470
2.9
80
660
2.38
2.9
1.9
3.5
55
1580
2.9
85
710
2.56
3.2
2.1
3.8
60
21.6
1680
2.8
90
755
2.72
3.4
2.2
4.0

( Source : Nutrient requirement of livestock and poultry - by S.K.Ranjhan)

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