Supplementation of cottonseed meal on feed intake, digestibility, live weight and carcass parameters of Sidama goats

Solomon, M.B.; Melaku, Solomon; Tolera, Adugna

doi:10.1016/j.livsci.2008.03.011

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“…Mbaye and Sall (1982) reported that supplementation of sheep and cattle with brewer grains and molasses improved the total DM intake than those fed sole untreated groundnut hulls. Likewise, Matiwos et al (2008) reported that total DM intake and growth rate of Sidama goats increased correspondingly as level of cottonseed meal increased. In agreement with the result of this study, Liu et al (1998) reported that supplementation of sheep with different levels of rapeseed meal (88, 175, and 262) g/h/d improved the total DM intake than those fed untreated rice straw basal diet.…”

Section: Feed Intakementioning

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Bodyweight Change and CarcassYield Performance of Somali Goats Fed with Groundnut Pod Hulls and a Mixture of Wheat Branand Mustard Seed Cake

Worku¹,

Urge²

2014

Sci. Technol. Arts Res. J.

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Article InformationThe study was conducted at Kombolcha ATVET College, Eastern Ethiopia using 25 intact male yearling Somali goats weighing 18.4±1.5kg at the start of the experiment. The objectives of the study was to examine the effects of urea treated groundnut pod hulls and supplementation of wheat bran and mustard seed cake mixture at a ratio of 3:1, respectively at different levels on body weight change and carcass yield performance of Somali goats. A completely randomized block design was employed and the experimental animals were grouped in five blocks of five goats each based on their initial BW. The goats within a block were randomly assigned to one of the five diets. Treatment feeds consisted feeding of sole untreated groundnut pod hulls (UGNPH) (T1) adlibtum, sole urea treated (UTGNPH) (T2) adlibtum, and supplementation of the UGNPH with the concentrate mixture at graded levels of125g (T3), 250g (T4) and 375g DM/head/day (T5). Daily DM intake of UGNPH was higher (P<0.001) in T1 (407.1 g/head/day) and T3 (388.7g/head/day) compared to T4 (331.5 g/head day) and T5 (272.1 g/head/day), whereas that of UTGNPH was higher (P<0.001) for T2 (471.1 g/day/head) compared to all treatments. Total DM intake was higher (P<0.001) in supplemented groups (T3, T4, and T5) compared to non-supplemented groups (T1and T2). Goats fed sole UGNPH (T1) and UTGNH (T2) lost BW at a rate of 31 and 6 g per day, respectively, whereas supplemented goats gained BW at a rate of 18.9(T3), 40.7(T4), and 53.3g(T5)per day. Goats supplemented with concentrate had higher (P<0.001) weight of hot carcass and empty bodyweight (BW). Better dressing percentage was obtained (P<0.01) in supplemented and UTGNPH group on empty and slaughter BW basis. The result of this experiment demonstrated that urea treatment increased intake of groundnut pod hulls and decreased body weight loss as compared to the UGNPH. We recommend supplementation with 375g DM/day/head of the concentrate mixture to UGNPH based diet for small scale goat fattening programs, since neither UGNPH nor UTGNPH provided sufficient nutrients for growing goats.

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Section: Feed Intakementioning

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Bodyweight Change and CarcassYield Performance of Somali Goats Fed with Groundnut Pod Hulls and a Mixture of Wheat Branand Mustard Seed Cake

Worku¹,

Urge²

2014

Sci. Technol. Arts Res. J.

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“…The increased fat deposition in C-CM and Bt-CM diet fed lambs might be attributed by the higher levels of total lipids of cotton seed meals, which increased dietary lipid levels. Increased fat deposition was also reported in Sidama goats fed different levels of cottonseed meal (Solomon et al, 2008). Higher levels of dietary fat are reported (Bhatt et al, 2011) to favour fat deposition in essential organs in kid and lambs.…”

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“…Similar to the present findings, feeding of whole cottonseed at 15.7% of the diet DM was recommended (Solaiman et al, 2009) in growing goat kids without any adverse effect on intake, daily gain and health. A higher level of whole cottonseed was fed (Solomon et al, 2008) to growing kids maintained on range and this was the only supplement.…”

Section: Performance Digestibility and Nutritive Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is need to explore feed resources that can replace GNM in ruminant feeing and cottonseed could be an alternative (Solomon et al, 2008;Solaiman et al, 2009;Dayani et al, 2007); because, use of whole cottonseed in animal feeding provides high fiber, energy and protein, and has considerable quantity of rumen escape proteins that support high requirement of amino acids for various productions.…”

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“…The inclusion of 20% whole cottonseed in sheep was recommended (Dayani et al, 2007) for potential defaunation. A 300 g whole cottonseed meal supplementation is recommended (Solomon et al, 2008) per goat for better performance and carcass traits on grass hay based goat production system, while 15.7% whole cottonseed feeding improved intake and growth of growing kids (Solaiman et al, 2009) and higher levels of inclusion exhibited deleterious effects when soybean meal and concentrate was replaced. In dairy cattle feeding, only 150 g/kg diet whole cottonseed meal inclusion is recommended, while improved milk production was achieved (Singhal et al, 2011), when cattle received 2.9 kg per day genetically modified cottonseed.…”

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Effect of Bt-cottonseed meal feeding on performance, fermentation, ciliates population and microbial hydrolytic enzymes in lamb

Tripathi¹,

Raghuvansi²,

Mondal³

et al. 2014

Afr. J. Biotechnol.

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Effect of the Bt-or conventional cottonseed meal was assessed as well as the performance, fermentation, ciliate protozoa population and microbial enzyme of lambs. Three feed mixture (FM, forage: concentrate ration of 35: 65) contained groundnut oilmeal (GNM), insect protected Btcottonseed meal (Bt-CM) or conventional whole cottonseed (C-CM) as protein source, were fed for 123 days to the control, C-CM and Bt-CM group of lambs, respectively. Whole seed meal Bt-and C-CM had similar nutrient composition. The Ca was higher while Zn content was lower in C-CM. Both CM had similar metabolizable energy (MJ/kg DM). Lambs of three groups had similar daily gain, DM intake and nutrient digestibility. Rumen fluid pH and TVFA were similar, while ammonia-N (mg/l) was higher (p<0.001) in control lambs. Cottonseed feeding eliminated (p<0.001) rumen protozoa; protozoa were 101.1, 59.0 and 39.6 ×10 4 / ml in rumen fluid respectively in control, C-CM and Bt-CM diet fed lambs. Rumen enzymes activities of xyalanase, β-glucosidase and β-xylosidase were similar, while Bt-CM feeding reduced (p=0.010) carboxymethyl cellulase (CMCase) activity by 47% and increased proteases activity by 22%. The study concludes that inclusion of Bt-CM produced pronounced defaunation with reduced rumen ammonia concentrations, which improved daily gain. Therefore, Bt-CM can be incorporated at 180 g/kg in lamb diet.

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Supplementations of Hyparrhenia rufa -dominated hay with groundnut cake- wheat bran mix: effects on feed intake, digestibility and nitrogen balance of Somali goats

Betsha

Melaku

2008

Trop Anim Health Prod

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A digestibility and nitrogen (N) balance experiment was conducted using twenty yearling male Somali goats weighing 23.4 +/- 2.02 (mean+/-SD). The objectives of the study were to evaluate the effects of supplementation with graded levels of mixture of groundnut cake and wheat bran at a ratio of 3:1 on DM basis on feed intake, apparent digestibility and N balance in Somali goats. The experimental design was a completely randomized design consisting of five animals in each treatment. The dietary treatments included ad libitum feeding of hay (T1, control), and daily supplementation with 200 (T2, low) 300 (T3, medium) and 400 g DM (T4, high) of the concentrate mix. Increased level of supplementation reduced (P < 0.001) daily hay DM intake. Digestibility of crude protein (CP) was higher (P < 0.001) for the supplemented goats. Urinary nitrogen, total nitrogen excretion and retention increased (P < 0.01) with the level of supplementation. It was concluded that supplementation with groundnut -wheat bran mixture promoted feed intake and digestibility of DM, CP, and N retention in Somali goats fed hay. However, supplementation at the medium level appeared to be more effective since it promoted similar N balance with the high level of supplementation.

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Supplementation of cottonseed meal on feed intake, digestibility, live weight and carcass parameters of Sidama goats

Cited by 34 publications

References 13 publications

Bodyweight Change and CarcassYield Performance of Somali Goats Fed with Groundnut Pod Hulls and a Mixture of Wheat Branand Mustard Seed Cake

Bodyweight Change and CarcassYield Performance of Somali Goats Fed with Groundnut Pod Hulls and a Mixture of Wheat Branand Mustard Seed Cake

Effect of Bt-cottonseed meal feeding on performance, fermentation, ciliates population and microbial hydrolytic enzymes in lamb

Supplementations of Hyparrhenia rufa -dominated hay with groundnut cake- wheat bran mix: effects on feed intake, digestibility and nitrogen balance of Somali goats

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