Sawdust - a suitable roughage in drought?
Primefact Number: 278 Edition: First edition Released/reviewed: 01 Nov 2006
In severe drought, sawdust may be used as a cattle ‘feed’, especially when roughage becomes scarce, expensive, or both, but sawdust must always be considered a last choice of roughage.
Sawdust has no nutritive value at all. Its function is a mechanical one to allow the rumen (stomach) to work.
This Primefact provides information on:
- the use of sawdust in conjunction with a high grain diet;
- how to identify and remedy impaction;
- risks associated with cypress pine sawdust;
- use of sawdust as a diluter.
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