ABSTRACT


José Gálmez1, Ernesto Santisteban1, Ernesto Haardt1, Christian Crempien1 y Luis Villalta2
 

Forty German Merino lambs averaging 27,7 kilograms were divided into five experimental groups at the Estación Experimental de la Facultad de Ciencias Pecuarias y Medicina Veterinaria de la Universidad de Chile. They were fed rations containing 68-58-48 and 38 percent broilers litter and a control group fed alfalta hay for sixty days in a feedlet.
The average daily gain (g) was 208-186-174-170 and 84, respectively. The broiler litter groups gained significantly more than the alfalfa hay group (P < 0,05).
Feed conversion, cost per kilogram of ration and cost per kilogram of gain is shown.

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1Médicos Veterinarios. Departamento de Producción Animal, Escuela Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad de Chile Casilla 5539, Santiago, Chile.
2Egresado Escuela Medicina Veterinaria. Universidad de ChIle.