@conference {40662,
	title = {Seasonal patterns of wool growth in Romney sheep selected for high and low staple tenacity},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {55},
	year = {1995},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {42-45},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Twenty Jersey and 12 Friesian cows were individually offered  freshly cut pastures that had received either 100-150 kg nitrogen (N)/ha  (HN) or 25 kg N/ha (LN) as urea, either ad lib. or restricted to  70\% of ad lib. Treatments were imposed for 2 consecutive 14-day  periods during September and October 1993.    Effects of N fertiliser on the chemical and botanical composition of  pasture were minor. There were no significant effects of N fertiliser  on mean fat corrected milk yield, (19.9 kg/day 4.0\% FCM), milk yield  (16.2 kg/day), milk fat \% (5.6\%), milk fat yield (0.9 kg/day), or  liveweight change (-0.59 kg/day). Milk protein yield (P.0.05) and  protein \% (P<0.05) and protein \% (P0.01) were greater for LN than for HN  treatment groups (0.58 vs 0.56 kg/cow/day and 3.6 vs 3.5\% respectively).  Voluntary DMI was also affected by N fertiliser for cows on  ad  lib. pasture allowance (14.0 vs. 14.6 kg DM/cow/day for HN and LN  treatments; P<0.01).    The application of N fertiliser in winter/early spring, had only minor  effects on pasture intake or milk yield and composition in early  lactation.   },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Woods JL and Bray AR and Rogers GR and Smith MC}
}
