Territory Stories

Alice Springs Rural Review

Details:

Title

Alice Springs Rural Review

Creator

Northern Territory. Department of Resources

Collection

Alice Springs Rural Review; E-Journals; PublicationNT; Alice Springs Rural Review

Date

2010-12-01

Location

Alice Springs

Notes

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

Language

English

Subject

Agriculture; Alice Springs Region; Periodicals

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Alice Springs

Series

Alice Springs Rural Review

Volume

V 44 (9-12) December 2010

File type

application/pdf

ISSN

0813-9148

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/227332

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/676011

Page content

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