Alternatives for Sheep Nutrition

Abstract

The sheep industry is an activity that has been developed on a large scale in recent years in Brazil. From the moment that the sheep began to exhibit faster growth, greater weight gain, feed conversion and higher carcass yield, their demands on the premises, sanity, health, appropriate management techniques increasingly grow and with it the need food, which is the subject of this work, therefore became high. Introduce alternatives to enrich or even replace the food offered in the sheep industry have been increasingly studied, showing advantages and disadvantages of some compounds, such as corn gluten meal which decreases the production efficiency of animals, reducing weight gain and increasing feed conversion, the cashew pulp is an option to mitigate the effects of drought on animals, sunflower meal that is an alternative to reduce costs and enhance the nutrition of sheep to the concentrate standard, among others. It is of utmost importance to ensure good nutrition for the animals can play their full potential thereby ensuring better profits and good animals in their breeding.