@conference {40564,
	title = {Voluntary feed intake, growth and efficiency of feed conversion in growing sambar (Cervus unicolor) and red deer (Cervus elaphus)},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {54},
	year = {1994},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {63-66},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Hand-reared sambar and red deer (3 hinds and 5 stags/species) were  
confined indoors in individual pens and fed a pelleted diet ad libitum, to 
study seasonal effects upon voluntary feed intake (VFI) and body growth.  
Mean age at the start of the experiment was 5 months for sambar and 7 months 
for red deer.  Red deer of both sexes showed maximum VFI and liveweight gain  
(LWG) in summer and minimum values in winter.  Sambar of both sexes also  
showed seasonal cycles in VFI and LWG, but with maximum values in autumn  
and minimum values in spring, and with the amplitude of the cycles being  
much less than for red deer.  Over a complete 12 month period (7-19 months of  
age), total LWG was similar in sambar and red deer, but total VFI was lower  
for sambar (p<0.01) and efficiency of food conversion (kgDM/kgLWG) more  
efficient for sambar than for red deer (p<0.05).  When energy requirements  
were calculated, the amount of metabolisable energy (ME) required for both  
maintenance and gain were lower for sambar than for red deer. },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Semiadi G and Muir PD and Barry TN}
}
