Experiments conducted with cattle and sheep also indicate that effects of DON on animal health
or performance are negligible. Sheep fed wheat diets containing 8.5 mg DON/kg DM for 45 d had
similar feed intakes, average daily gains and feed efficiencies as sheep fed no DON in a corn-baseddiet (Table 2; DeHaan et al., 1984). In another study, sheep were fed 15.6 mg DON/kg diet DM for28 d with no apparent effects on dry matter intake, average daily gain or feed efficiency (Table 2;Harvey et al., 1986).