Influence of supplementing diet with microalgae (Schizochytrium limacinum)on growth and metabolism in lambs during the summer

Abstract

This experiment was conducted at a livestock experiment station. All the scientists in the experiment are licensed to perform experiments on animals and the protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of UÜHADYEK (approval date: 23.05.2014; no: 2014-09/05).

Physiological and Behavioral Responses of Growing Barki Ram Lambs Exposed to Heat Stress and Fed Brown Seaweed as Additives under Semi-Arid Conditions

“…Simultaneously, adding Sargassum latifolium resulted in decreasing glucose, total lipids, cholesterol and triglycerides. In agreement with our findings, Kannan et al (2007a, b) and Ekin et al (2017) recorded that blood cholesterol tended to decrease in goats, dairy cows and lambs fed diets containing algae during stress. Sargassum latifolium is rich in sulfated polysaccharides such as fucoidans and alginate (Mohsen et al, 2007;Gamal-Eldeen et al, 2009).…”

“…have been used as useful alternative feed to livestock because they contain sources of valuable foodstuffs such as essential and non-essential amino acids, some vitamins, antioxidant compounds, dyes and polyunsaturated fatty acids, that are beneficial to animal health (CEVA, 2005;Ananthi et al, 2010;Evans and Critchley, 2014). In this respect, Abdoun et al (2014) and Ekin et al (2017) suggested that algae might positively impact metabolism and reduce lipid concentrations in growing lambs. These knowledge about seaweeds will open new avenues for investigations for exploiting potential of this neglected unconventional resource for the feed industry that could play a vital role in sustainable development of the livestock sector.…”

Effects of Schizochytrium microalgae and sunflower oil as sources of unsaturated fatty acids for the sustainable mitigation of ruminal biogases methane and carbon dioxide

“…Narimani-Rad et al (2012) observed that the inclusion of SO at 0, 2.5 or 5% of a forage-based diet did not affect ME, OMD, and net energy of diets. Sucu et al (2017) observed that feeding lambs on diets supplemented with SA at 5 g/d increased ruminal SCFA concentration and decreased rumen pH, without affecting ruminal ammonia-N concentration.…”

“…The reported values in Table 5 indicate a normal ruminal fermentation environment for the culture medium. The lower ruminal pH may be related to the increased concentration of ammonia and total SCFA observed with the additive supplementation (Sucu et al, 2017), or due to increased energy density (Morsy et al, 2015) in the diets. The increased total SCFA production and decreased pH reflect a higher extent of fermentation with the inclusion of SO and SA.…”

“…Sunflower oil and SA increased ammonia-N, which may be because of increased bacterial count with the inclusion of SO and SA, and with the presence of soybean meal as the main protein source in the total mixed ration. The enhanced microbial activity and nutrients degradation due to increased total ruminal bacterial numbers in response to the inclusion of SO and SA in the diet has been linked to an increase in SCFA production (Morsy et al, 2015;Sucu et al, 2017). Ueda et al (2003) observed that the inclusion of flaxseed oil increased ruminal ammonia concentration in dairy cows due to increasing bacterial N flow with SO.…”