Treatments Ingested† Kidney Liver Muscle
  (mg 206d-1) ---------------- Cadmium (mg kg-1)  ----------------
Control 44.3 0.1445c‡ 0.1652c 0.1449c
Fertilizer 48.3 0.2915b 0.2479b 0.2897b
25 Mg ha-1 42.7 0.4194a 0.3556a 0.3972a
50 Mg ha-1 56.6 0.4172a 0.3977a 0.3758a
    ------------------ Nickel (mg kg-1)  ------------------
Control 772 1.2481a 1.8407a 1.2392a
Fertilizer 879 3.2054a 1.4555a 1.4414a
25 Mg ha-1 968 3.4106a 1.9449a 1.2809a
50 Mg ha-1 921 1.2137a 1.2723a 2.3189a
    ------------------- Lead (mg kg-1)  -------------------
Control 1613 0.7369a 0.5424a 0.6627a
Fertilizer 1494 0.5472a 0.6882a 0.5399a
25 Mg ha-1 1709 0.4828a 0.4677a 0.5421a
50 Mg ha-1 1586 0.6017a 0.5724a 0.4645a
† Chromium ingested from 266 to 312 g in 206 days
‡ Row means followed by different letters are significantly different at the 0.05 probability level
Table 3: Mean concentrations of heavy metals in sheep tissues.