This research was conducted from July, 14 to November, 23 1988 in order to evaluate fleece wool production and weight gain. Fourty Corriedale hoggets with an average age 8.0 months and an average weight of 26kg, were equally alloted to one of the four treatments: T1 - native grass pasture (Control) T2 = T1 + sugar cane (integral ground ad libitum); T3 = T2 + soybean meal (150gr/day) and T4 = controled pasturing 3.0 hours/dia on ryegrass pasture cultivated and the remainder in native pasture. The weight gain differences from T3 (32.53kg) and T4 (32.33kg) in relation to average T2 (29.05kg) and T1 (25.25kg), and from july, 14 to november, 4 peiod the difference from T2 (32.23kg), in relation to T1 (28.98kg), were statiscally significant (P < 0.01). The fleece wool production differences from T4 (2.6kg) average, in relation to T1 (2. 2kg) averages, and T2 (2.1 kg) averages, and from T3 (2.5kg), in relation to T2 (2.1 kg), were statistically significanty (P < 0.01). The difference from T3 (2.5kg), in relation to T1 (2.2kg) was significant (P < 0.05). The hoggets suplementation only with sugar cane didn't detect satisfactory effect in the fleece wool production.
wool production; growth; sugar cane
