LIQUID DIETS CONTAINING POULTRY WASTES FOR RUMINANTS

Abstract

Mature sheep were fed a control corn–soybean meal diet, the same diet mixed with water to give a dry matter:water content ratio of 1:4, or a corn–wet, caged layer manure (CLM) diet containing 80% moisture. Digestible dry matter, nitrogen and energy were highest for the liquid control diet. The CLM diet gave results comparable to that of the dry control diet. Feeding the same diets to growing lambs confirmed the superiority of the liquid control diet as compared to the same ration fed in the dry form. Weight gain and feed:gain ratio were superior for the CLM diet as compared to the dry control.