Alice Springs Rural Review
Northern Territory. Department of Resources
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2010-12-01
Alice Springs
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).; This publication contains many links to external sites. These external sites may no longer be active.; Includes : Pastoral Market Update November 2010; Arid Zone Research Institute; AZRI, Alice Springs
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Alice Springs Rural Review
V 44 (9-12) December 2010
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ALICE SPRINGS RURAL REVIEW, Page 9 of 20 Figure 3: Looks at how much of the feed was actually digested by the cattle over a week. This graph again shows that there was no significant difference between the cattle supplemented with PEG or not supplemented at all. At this stage the pen trial indicates that there does not appear to be any benefit from supplementing cattle eating mulga with PEG. These results are vastly different to what we were expecting and with analysis of our samples we hope to explain why this has occurred during this trial. The completion of this pen trial has taken a huge effort from the staff at AZRI and also the men from the Alice Springs Correctional Centre. I thank them whole heartily for all their efforts to ensuring that the best data possible could be collected. If you have any questions about the PEG trial please do not hesitate to contact Sally Leigo, 08 8951 8144 or sally.leigo@nt.gov.au Weekly Dry Matter Digestibility (Kg DM/Week) 0.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 25.0 1 2 Week F ee d D ig es te d ( kg D M ) Control PEG Sally Sims and Bryan Gill preparing faecal samples, which are currently being analysed