ABSTRACT


José Gálmez de P.1, Ernesto Santisteban M.1 y Donald Torell2
 

Twenty pregnant French Merino Ewes were divided in two experimental groups at the Estación Experimental de la Facultad de Ciencias Pecuarias y Medicina Veterinaria de la Universidad de Chile. They were fed ration containing 63% broiler litter, 35% dry sugar beet pulp, 2% common salt, and the control group with 87% alfalfa hay, 11% dry sugar beet pulp, 2% common salt.
Birth weight means, and daily gain until 90 days of age of the lambs were not significant (P > 0.05) between groups.

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1Médico Veterinarios, Departamento de Producción Animal, Facultad de Ciencias Pecuarias y Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 5539, Santiago, Chile.
2Especialista Departamento de Ciencia Animal, Universidad de California, Davis. Participante Convenio Universidad de Chile - Universidad de California.