@conference {40652,
	title = {Effect of once daily milking (ODM) on enzyme activities in the bovine mammary gland},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {55},
	year = {1995},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {12-13},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Maintenance diets containing two levels of energy (9.6 v. 11.5  MJME per kg DM) and two levels of protein (10.7 v.21.7 g nitrogen per kg  DM) were fed to four groups, each of ten Romney (five low and five high  staple tenacity) and four Drysdale yearling rams, for six weeks from mid  March.    Protein supplementation increased protein intake by 114\% (P<0.001). It  increased clean wool growth in the treatment period (6.2 v. 10.2 g.um-  2.d-1, P<0.001), more so in Drysdales than Romneys (89 v. 46\%; P<0.001).   It also increased mean fibre diameter (38.1 v. 34.3 um, P<0.001) without  changing the proportion of fibre that was medullated. Responses to the  nutrient supplements were similar in low and high staple tenacity Romney  rams.    It is concluded that during the photoperiod-induced decline in wool  growth in autumn, sheep on a maintenance diet responded to the increase  in dietary protein with an increase in the volume of fibre and volume of  keratin produced with no net change in the proportion of fibre  medullated.   },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Farr VC and Stelwagen K and Kerr MA and Davis SR and Eichler SJ}
}
