Feeding Fodder Beet Roots Suplemented With Urea for Lactating Buffalo

Abstract

welve lactating buffaloes with an average weight of 496.7 kg were divided randomly into three similar groups (four animals each). Each group was assigned randomly to one of the following three dietary treatments: Control ration (C) {60% concentrate feed mixture CFM+40% rice straw, fodder beet ration (FB) {40% CFM+20% FB plus 50 gm urea+40% rice straw} and fodder beet silage ration, (FBS) {40% CFM+20% FBS plus 50 gm urea +40% rice straw on DM basis. The experiment was extended for 90 days. The results showed that animals received FB ration recorded the highest values of DM, OM, CP, EE and NFE digestibility followed by FBS ration. The FB group had significant (P<0.05) increases in OMD and CPD, while FBS treated group had the highest values in CFD (P<0.05). Blood serum parameters of FB group had highest values of serum TP, albumin, A /G ratio, glucose and urea (P<0.05), the FBS group had the higher values of serum TP, Albumin, A /G ratio, glucose and urea(P<0.05) than those of control. The (FB) group recorded the highest values of daily milk yield in all periods with average 6.99 kg / head /d., followed by FBS animals (6.69 kg / h/d) then control group (6.51 kg / h /d). The same trend was noticed with significant (P< 0.05) increase in fat corrected milk (FCM) yield (10.02, 9.65 and 8.90 kg / h /d.) for FB, FBS and control groups, resp., FB group recorded the highest values (P< 0.05) of milk total solids, SNF, TP and lactose content, while FBS treated animals had significant higher total solids content and non significant higher milk SNF, TP and ash content than the control group. The FB group had the lowest feed cost to produce one kg FCM (2.88 L.E.) followed by FBS treatment which recorded (2.9 L.E.), while the control group had the highest value (3.51 L.E.). Fodder beet group had the highest economical efficiency value (2.43) followed by FBS treatment (2.41) then the control group which had the lowest value (1.99).

Nutritional Performance of Growing Sheep Fed Silage of Salt Tolerant Plants Under South Sinai Conditions

“…Fodder beet is not a sensitive crop; it can tolerant the unfavorable conditions of reclaimed soils, and high water irrigation salinity (Heuzw et al, 2015). Moreover, it is typically high in total digestible nutrient (75.94%) as reported by Gabra and Gad (1999) but low with crude protein values of 6% (El-Eissawy et al, 2011), high yielding in terms of nutritive value and low input utilizing farm resources (Mansour and Al-Zahar, 2018).…”

“…Crude protein digestibility was higher (P<0.05) for STPS group than BH group. This result may be owing to that STPS provided more readily available energy which improves protein utilization (Mansour and Al-Zahar, 2018).…”

“…In general, lambs fed on STPS recorded acceptable digestion coefficient compared to lambs fed control group (Table 2). These results may be attributed to that fodder beet ration had the highest value of NFE and the lowest CF value (Mansour and Al-Zahar 2018), as well as fodder beet is characterized by high sugar and starch contents resulting in high nutrient digestion and most likely supporting microbial growth (Helal et al, 2012 andDe Brabander et al, 1999).…”

“…In desert area of Egypt, the shortage of ruminant feeds especially in summer and early autumn seasons is the main challenge to increase indigenous animal production and improve livestock productivity (Mansour and Al-Zahar, 2018). In arid and semi-arid regions such as South Sinai, animal husbandry, as the main income resource for pastoralists, is mostly based on the natural vegetation for rearing small ruminates (Squires and El Shaer, 2016).…”

Some Nutrition Studies on Using Ureated Sugar Beat Leaves and its Effects on Sheep Performance

“…The increase of total protein concentration in blood plasma by increasing ureated sugar beet leaves. (T2 and T3) compared with T1 may be related to the enhancement in metabolic process particularly digestible crude protein and nutritive value (Table 2) and higher energy intake for ureated SBLS, than control group consequently the higher microbial protein mas which raised ruminant TPN concentration, which leads to more absorbed amino acids by papilla's in small intestine to blood stream (Mansour and Al-Zahar, 2018) and (Bendary et al, 2000). Albumin (AL), Globulin (Gb) and urea (Ur) concentrations were mat (Table 6) significant (P>0.05) difference were detected among treatments, the figures, were 4.07 & 4.07 vs 3.5 g/dL for AL, trait, 3.73& 4.03 vs 3.23 g/dL respectively for Gb trait while urea were 38.33 & 39.00 38.67 g/dL res.…”