“…Most nutritional studies in ratites have been conducted in ostriches (reviewed by Angel, 1996;Ullrey and Allen, 1996;Aganga et al, 2003;Cooper et al, 2005), because it was the first and is currently the most commonly farmed ratite species (Gillespie and Schupp, 1998;Cloete et al, 2004;Ipek and Sahan, 2004;Lambrechts, 2004;Fair et al, 2005;Cloete et al, 2006). Thereafter, when rhea farming started to grow as an agricultural venture, the need for information about nutrient requirements was met by direct extrapolation from that available for ostriches (Angel, 1996;Carbajo Garcia et al, 1997;Aganga et al, 2003).…”