Abstract: To investigate the effect of feeding manners on growth properties, slavghter performance and meat quality of Oula sheep during herbage recovery period, 45 1.5-years-old healthy Oula wethers were chosen as experimental animals and randomly divided into drylot feeding group, nature grazing group and grazing with supplementary feeding group. During the 60-day test period, the body weight and size were measured at day 0, 30 and 60, respectively. At the end of the experiment, three sheep were randomly selected for slavghter and the carcass trait and meat qvality were determined. The results showed that the change of body weight daily weight gain, body height, body length and chest circumference in the grazing with supplementary feeding group was lower than those in the drylot feeding group, but better than those in the nature grazing group. Carcass weight, dressing percentage, meat weight, meat percentage and hind leg weight in both the drylot feeding and grazing with supplementary feeding groups were significantly higher（P＜0.05） that those in the grazing group. The carbohydrate content in the muscle of sheep in the grazing with supplementary feeding group was significantly lower than that in the drylot feeding group（P＜0.05）. The protein content in the muscle of sheep in both the nature grazing group and the grazing with supplementary feeding group was significantly higher than that in the feedlot group（P＜0.05）. The contents of aspartic acid, glutamic acid, threonine, isoleucine, histidine and lysine in the muscle of sheep in the nature grazing group were significantly higher than those in the drylot feeding group（P＜0.05）. The contents of valine and leucine in sheep muscle in both the nature grazing group and the grazing with supplementary feeding group were significantly higher than those in the drylot feeding group（P＜0.05）, while the differences in the contents of various amino acids between the nature grazing group and the grazing with supplementary feeding group were not significant（P＞0.05）. The results indicated that the grazing with supplementary feeding could improve the yield and quality of mutton during herbage recovery period.