@conference {40299,
	title = {Evaluation of the feasibility of a juvenile MOET scheme in sheep},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {51},
	year = {1991},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {139-142},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {An experiment was conducted at Massey University to measure  potential growth rates of fawns and weight changes of hinds during  summer, a period when growth is usually limited by adequate feed supply  and/or quality.   Thirty two lactating mixed age hinds and their fawns (average age 32.9  days) were blocks on calving date and randomly assigned to one of 4  treatments on the Massey deer unit. The treatments consisted of low  (LC), medium (MC), or high allowance (HC) of pure red clover (6, 12 or  18 kg DM/hd/day) or 12 kg DM/hd/day of ryegrass/white clover pasture  (CON). The corresponding stocking rates were 17.5, 8.7, 5.8 or 7.1  hind/fawn pairs/ha on the LC, MC, HC and CON treatments respectively.  Treatments lasted for 61 days from 29 Dec until weaning on 28 Feb.  Hinds and fawns were weighed bi-weekly.   Weaning weights of the fawns were 51.3, 49.5, 46.7 and 42.8 kg for the  HC, MC, LC and CON treatments respectively. This corresponded to fawn  average daily weight gain of 461, 433, 380 and 333 g/day respectively.  Fawn growth rates and weaning weights were significantly greater on all  clover allowances than on the control (p<0.05). HC and MC treatments  did not differ but were greater than LC (p<0.05).   Hind weight changes followed a similar pattern. Liveweight gains for  the hinds was 53, 58, 5 and -52 g/day for the HC, MC, LC and CON  treatments respectively. All three allowances of red clover increased  weight gain more than CON (p<0.09).  HC and MC treatments did not  differ but both were greater than LC (p<0.05).  },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Rangel-santos R and McDonald MF and Wickham GA}
}
