Abstract
animals can be estimated from the pattern of alkanes in each component of the diet and the faeces. With the wide adoption of this method, a commercial alkane capsule has been developed for sheep. However, there has been no attempt to assess the potential of using the alkane technique to predict feed intake of selective grazing ruminants like deer. It is critical to determine the recovery of the marker from the faeces before n-alkanes can be used to measure feed intake and diet composition of deer under grazing condition. The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the potential of using alkanes to measure feed intake of fallow deer by measuring the faecal output of artificial and natural alkanes after dosing deer with alkane capsules. MATERIALS AND METHODS
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