Show 0 10 NW 5 OATS EQUAL CORN TO FATTEN LAMBS grain was found efficient in three feeding trials oats are arc equal to corp corn for fattening western lambs was wag the leading feature in au i exhibit by the purdue university agricultural experiment station lit at the recent luter international national live stock exposition a chicago three feeding trials were conducted involving lambs in which oats cottonseed meal clover hay and corn silage were fed in direct comparison with shelled corn cottonseed ineal clover hay and silage corn is a highly efficient grain for finishing market animals but oats proved to be equally as good requiring pounds of oats 51 pounds of cottonseed meal pounds of hay und and pounds of silage for pounds of gain whereas it required pounds of corn bl 51 pounds of cottonseed meal pounds of hay and pounds of silage for the of gains lambs receiving oats to la the ration consumed approximately 40 per cent less roughage than the lambs receiving corn the market value of oats ini in recent years has often been very low which Is an added advantage of this common grain as a lamb feed for economical gains it has beebi found that oats should be supplemented with a protein feed as cottonseed meal linseed oil meal or soy benns beans twelve pounds of oats to one pound of protein feed Is a good proportion in the case of feeding corn seven pounds of shelled corn to one pound of supplement produces an economical prop proportion |