Effects of concentrate and Acacia cyanophylla foliage supplementation on nitrogen balance and milk production of grazing ewes

Maâmouri, O.; Atti, Naziha; Kraïem, K.; Mahouachi, M.

doi:10.1016/j.livsci.2011.01.018

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“…The same trend found in fat corrected milk, 4%FCM yield whereas; the lowest value was observed with T3 (714.86g/h/d) with significant differences (P<0.05) compared to the other groups. At this respect, similar results were previously observed by Maamouri et al, (2011) in ewes, who found high level of Acacia feeding significantly decreased milk production. As presented in our study there is no considerable variability in milk composition traits among the all groups, whereas, a specific role for CT concentration at 3.87 g/DM (T2) and 8.33 g/DM (T3) was unclear since the difference in milk composition (fat, protein and lactose) between the treatments was not significant, despite a trend toward lower percentages of different milk contents for ewes on the high CT content diets.…”

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confidence: 91%

Studies on Mixing Tanniniferous Plants With Ammoniated Wheat Straw in Barki Sheep Rations on Digestibility, Performance and Some Blood Biochemical

El-Gohary

Elsheikh

Saber

et al. 2017

Egyptian Journal of Nutrition and Feeds

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ive dietary treatments in three trails were conducted with Barki sheep as follows: 60% Concentrate feed mixture (CFM) and 20% Ammoniated wheat straw ( AWS) as basic diet with 20% Cassava (C) in T1, 20% Prosopis juliflora (P) in T2, 20% Acacia Saligna (A) in T3, 10% C + 10% A in T4 and 10% C + 10% P in T5. In Trial 1, Fifteen Barki rams (43± 1.85 kg) divided into equally five treatment groups to evaluate the effect of condensed tannin sources on apparent nutrients digestibility. The results indicated that the rams fed with T3 (20 % A. Saligna) at a maximum level of tannin (8.33 g /Kg DM) had a lower DMI (9.72 %) than the comparable group (T1) (P<0.05). Lower level of CT (3.87 g/Kg) in T2 diet have higher the digestibility coefficient (P>0.05) of DM, OM, CP, EE and CF than that on T1 diet by 3.90, 3.57, 1.87, 3.16 and 1.04%, respectively. Rumen ammonia concentrations were decreased with increasing of CT content in experimental diets (T3, T4, T1, T5 and T2, respectively). In Trial 2, Twenty five healthy Barki ewes at late pregnancy, weighing 41±2.29 kg at 3-5 years of age were randomly allocated into five dietary treatments to determine the milk yield and composition and some blood components changes due to tannin sources and productive performance of their offesprings. There was a significant increase (P<0.05) in milk yield with decreasing level of CT (6.42%) for ewes fed T2 ration when compared with the T1 group and there is no considerable variability in milk composition traits among all groups. And no significantly differences in average live body weight (ALBW) of offesprings among the all groups. The experimental diet T2 and T5 had significant increased (P<0.05) total protein and globulin (G) compared with the other experimental diets. No significant differences among different treatments regarding albumin was observed. Groups T3 and T4 have higher levels (P<0.05) of Urea-N and Creatinine when compared with the other groups. Values of AST and ALP were significantly higher (P<0.05) for the ewes in group T3 as compared to all groups, and the highest values of ALT were recorded (P<0.05) with T3. In Trial 3, Twenty-five healthy male Barki lambs after weaning, weighing 12±0.64 kg, aged 3-4 month divided into five groups to evaluate the effect of tannin sources on growth performance and some blood components. The lambs fed diets T2 and T5 produced totally (P<0.05) higher final live body weight (29.03 Kg and 28.16 Kg, respectively) at the end of the experimental period (90 days) compared to the other groups. The results indicate that the experimental tanniniferous plants can be incorporated up to 20 % with ammoniated wheat straw without compromising the body health of the animals and the best impact of tanniniferous plants on the performance of Barki sheep was Prosopis juliflora (leaves & twigs), Cassava and Acacia Saligna, respectively.

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confidence: 91%

Studies on Mixing Tanniniferous Plants With Ammoniated Wheat Straw in Barki Sheep Rations on Digestibility, Performance and Some Blood Biochemical

El-Gohary

Elsheikh

Saber

et al. 2017

Egyptian Journal of Nutrition and Feeds

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“…These findings also were in line with Steinshamn (2010) who reported that legumes increased milk yield than grass based feeding. Similarly, milk yield was higher for ewes fed higher level of AS leaves (Maamouri et al, 2011).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…However, the inclusion of graded levels of ALH in the diets of lactating ewes increased significantly (P<0.05) DCP intake (g/h/day) compared to control (135.8, 133.6 and 137.1 vs. 130.1 g/h/day, respectively) while differences between DCP intake values of lactating ewes fed 20% and 40% ALH diets were not significant. In this respect, Maamouri et al (2011) conducted study to evaluate the effects of natural protection of protein from microbial degradation in the rumen by Acacia tannins on DM intake and milk production in dairy ewes. The experimental sheep flock grazing rye grass pasture was divided into four groups.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It would appear that the consumption of plant species with high CT contents (generally > 50 g kg -1 of dry matter, DM) significantly reduces voluntary feed intake, while medium or low consumption (< 50 g kg -1 DM) seems not to affect it (Barry and Duncan, 1984;Barry and Manley, 1984;Waghorn et al, 1994a). It was previously reported that CT concentrate content in dried Acacia saligna leaves ranged from 31.5 (Maamouri et al, 2011) to 36 g/kg dry matter (DM) (Ben Salem et al, 2002). According to these determinations, the expected calculated CT content related to the three levels of ALH used in the present study will be equivalent to 3.78 -4.32, 7.56 -8.64 and 11.66 -13.32 g CT for 20, 40 and 60% ALH replacement of berseem hay, respectively.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Effect of Acacia Saligna Levels on Lactating Barki Ewes Performance

Khattab

Shawket

Abdel-Wahed

et al. 2017

Egyptian Journal of Nutrition and Feeds

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his study was conducted to evaluate the effect of feeding graded levels of Acacia saligna leaves hay (ALH) on dry matter intake, milk yield, composition and lambs growth rate from birth to weaning. Forty Barki ewes at the start of lactation stage averaged 3-5 years old with an average live body weight 38.8±1.6 kg were randomly allocated to four treatments groups (ten ewes per group), were fed with 0, 20, 40 and 60% of ALH as berseem hay replacement. The experiment lasted 16 weeks and showed that there was no significant difference (P>0.05) in daily dry matter intake ewes body weight change, milk yield and compositions and lambs daily gain during lactation season due to the supplementation of lactating ewes with graded levels of ALH compared with control treatment. Milk yield values were 24.1, 23.9, 24.2 and 24.3 g/d and ADG values were 147.3, 145.5, 152.7 and 150.9 g/d for control, 20, 40 and 60% ALH, respectively. It may be concluded that A. saligna leaves hay can be used as alternative feed sources for lactating ewes.

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“…Recent research has focussed on assessing the potential of these plant compounds as natural ways to increase ruminant's feed efficiency (Maamouri et al 2011;Bhatta et al 2013) or to improve meat quality (Nieto et al 2010). Therefore, the use of the secondary compounds as additives in animal feeding is becoming common.…”

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Effects of Rosmarinus officinalis L. as essential oils or in form of leaves supplementation on goat’s production and metabolic statute

Smeti

Hajji

Bouzid

et al. 2014

Trop Anim Health Prod

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The effects of rosemary supply in form of essential oils (REO) or leaves (RL) on performances of goats were investigated. Thirty goats were allocated into three equal groups, which were fed oat-hay ad libitum and 400 g of concentrate during the two last weeks of pregnancy and 600 g during the first 8 weeks of lactation. Three-control diet (C) was a mixture of barley, soybean meal and mineral vitamin supplement. The experimental concentrates contained the same mixture of the control diet plus 0.6 g/kg of REO or its equivalent supply RL (60 g/kg). Rosemary supply did not affect dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) digestibility. While urinary nitrogen loss was higher for experimental groups than the C (P = 0.03). Daily milk production was significantly higher (P = 0.007) for rosemary groups (694 and 582 ml for RL and REO, respectively) than C group (442 ml). Rosemary decreased numerically (P > 0.05) the fat content (23, 25 and 26.5 g/l for REO, RL and C groups, respectively) but significantly increased the fat (P = 0.003) and protein content (P = 0.008). The growth rate of kids was significantly higher (P = 0.008) for RL (111 g) than that for REO and C (97 and 83 g, respectively). However, rosemary has not shown significant effect on the plasma metabolite concentrations. Given the facility to obtain the rosemary leaves, this form of rosemary use is recommended as natural alternative to improve the performances of goats.

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Effects of concentrate and Acacia cyanophylla foliage supplementation on nitrogen balance and milk production of grazing ewes

Cited by 16 publications

References 37 publications

Studies on Mixing Tanniniferous Plants With Ammoniated Wheat Straw in Barki Sheep Rations on Digestibility, Performance and Some Blood Biochemical

Studies on Mixing Tanniniferous Plants With Ammoniated Wheat Straw in Barki Sheep Rations on Digestibility, Performance and Some Blood Biochemical

Effect of Acacia Saligna Levels on Lactating Barki Ewes Performance

Effects of Rosmarinus officinalis L. as essential oils or in form of leaves supplementation on goat’s production and metabolic statute

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