The effect of protein supplement source or supply pattern on the intake, digestibility, rumen kinetics, nitrogen utilisation and growth of Ethiopian Menz sheep fed teff straw

Bonsi, M.L.K.; Tuah, A. K.; Osuji, P.O.; Nsahlai, V.I.; Umunna, N.N.

doi:10.1016/s0377-8401(96)01048-6

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“…Contrary to the current study, Bonsi et al (1996) reported that supplementation of sheep with cotton seed cake and Sesbania tended to enhance tef straw intake. Badamana and Sutton (1992) explained that hay and total DM intake increased linearly with CP content of the concentrate diet.…”

Section: Feed Intakecontrasting

confidence: 99%

“…The daily BW gain of supplemented sheep in this study were comparable to 70.44 g day −1 for Wogera sheep supplemented with brewery dried grain at 300 g DM/day (Moges 2005). Bonsi et al (1996) also reported daily BW gain of 62.9 g for Menz sheep supplemented with cotton seed cake at 169 g DM day −1 . However, the daily BW gain in the current study for the supplemented sheep were higher than 23.78 g observed in sheep supplemented daily with WB at 150 g DM (Kaitho 1997), 52.88 g in sheep supplemented with 60 g NSM DM day −1 in tef straw -cactus based feeding (Gebremariam et al 2006) and 29.2 g for Menz sheep fed tef straw supplemented with 156.3 g WB DM (Melaku et al 2004).…”

Section: Body Weight Changementioning

confidence: 93%

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Effects of supplementation of Farta sheep fed hay with sole or mixtures of noug seed meal and wheat bran on feed intake, digestibility and body weight change

Bishaw

Melaku

2008

Trop Anim Health Prod

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Digestibility and feeding trials for 10 and 90 days were conducted using 25 yearling Farta rams with a mean body weight (BW) of 16.8 +/- 0.17 kg (mean +/- SD) to study the effects of supplementation with sole or mixtures of noug seed meal (NSM) and wheat bran (WB) on feed intake, digestibility and BW change in Farta sheep fed hay. The experimental design was a randomized complete block design. The sheep were arranged in five blocks based on initial BW, and the five treatments were assigned randomly to each animal in a block. The five treatments comprised of ad libitum hay (control, T1) and ad libitum hay plus daily supplementation of 300 g dry matter (DM) sole WB (T2), 2WB:1NSM (T3), 1WB:2NSM (T4) and sole NSM (T5). Supplementation increased total DM (P < 0.01) and crude protein (CP) (P < 0.001) intake and promoted daily BW gain (P < 0.001). Non- supplemented sheep consumed more (P < 0.01) hay DM compared to the supplemented treatments, except T2. Among supplemented sheep, T5 had higher (P < 0.001) CP intake than the other treatments. Supplementation improved (P < 0.001) the digestibility of CP. Lack of statistical differences in daily BW gain between the different supplements used in this study suggests that sheep producers can use the different feed supplements considered in this study depending on their availability in the order of T4, T5, T3 and T2, respectively.

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Section: Body Weight Changementioning

confidence: 93%

Effects of supplementation of Farta sheep fed hay with sole or mixtures of noug seed meal and wheat bran on feed intake, digestibility and body weight change

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Melaku

2008

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“…On the contrary, the current result was lower than that observed by Wendewsen (2010) that reported ADG of 96 and 84 g/day when Arsi-bale sheep fed grass hay basal diet was supplemented with 67% concentrate mix and 33% Sesbaniasusban, and 33% concentrate mix with 67% Sesbaniasusban, respectively. Average daily weight gains of corn silage supplemented sheep in this study were higher than the 62.9 g/day value noted by Bonsi et al, (1996). Comparing value for FCE in the current study with other studies involving supplementation showed that it was higher than the results of Jemberu (2008).…”

Section: Body Weight Change and Feed Conversion Efficiencycontrasting

confidence: 81%

Supplementation of different level of corn silage with linseed meal on performance of black head Ogaden sheep fed grass hay

Urgesa¹,

Animut²,

Yusuf³

2016

Sci. Technol. Arts Res. J.

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The experiment was conducted to evaluate the supplementation effect of different level corn silage (CS) with linseed meal (LSM) on performance of black head Ogaden sheep. Twenty five yearling male sheep with a mean initial BW of 14.85±0.31kg were assigned into five treatments in a randomized complete block design. Treatments were grass hay ad libitum + 60 g DM/day LSM alone (T1) or supplemented with 100 (T CS (T5). The experiment contains 90 days feeding and 7 days digestibility trials and carcass evaluation. CP (crude protein) content was 10.0, 8.6, and 30.4% and the NDF content was 76.8, 59.6 and 37.0% DM for grass hay, CS and LSM, respectively. Total DM intake was 575 637, 695, 765 and 844 g/head/day and was in the order of T Total CP intake followed a similar trend to that of total DM intake. The apparent digestibility of CP 72.4% for T5 was greater (p<0.05) as compared to T 80 g/day for T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5, respectively. Among the corn silage supplemented group ADG was lower (p<0.05) for T2 than T4 and T 6.03, 7.00, 7.35, 7.97, 8.00 kg respectively a was lower (p<0.05) for T1 as compared to T lowest for T5 (3.64%) and highest for T2 (22.32%). So considering capital, T MRR would be recommended as being economical. However, if capital is not the limiting factor, T4 would be selected since it fetches better net return and is good in inducing better biological performance of animals in terms of ADG and car

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“…As a result fiber degradation was lower in RFI-I than RFI-II heifers. Similar trend has been explained as being caused by differences in microbial growth and fermentation in the rumen of sheep [13].…”

Section: Digestibility Of Nutrientssupporting

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Residual Feed Intake, Digestibility of Nutrients and Efficiency of Water Utilizations in Murrah Buffalo Heifers

Negesse

Datt

Kundu

2017

JDVAR

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A metabolism trial was conducted for 7d to determine residual feed intake (RFI=measure of the difference between actual feed intake and expected feed requirement), dry matter intake (DMI), digestibility and metabolism of nutrients at the end of a 57 days (d) of a feeding trial with 18 Murrah buffalo heifers (279kg±16; and 684±131d of age). Preliminary selection of heifers as efficient and less efficient was done by regressing actual DMI on predicted DMI (g/head/d) using the model DMI (g/kg BW) = β 0 + β predicted DMI (g/kg BW) and RFI categories were sorted out by regressing mean DMI for the 57 days feeding period on BWG and mid-test MBW using the model Yi = β0 + β1 BWG (g/d) + β2 mid-test MBW (kg) + ei; where Yi = DMI, β0 = regression intercept, β1 and β2 = regression coefficients on BWG and mid-test MBW, respectively, and ei = uncontrolled error or RFI, heifers with +ve RFI values are less efficient and those with -ve RFI values efficient. Differences were not statistically significant. The actual dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), digestible organic matter (DOM) and total digestible nutrient (TDN) intakes of RFI-I heifers (6.73±0.56; 0.99±0.008; 5.06±0.47; and 4.95±0.47 kg/head/d, respectively) were not different from those of RFI-II (6.51±0.50; 0.97±0.07; 5.11±0.42; and 5.00±0.42 kg/head/d, respectively). RFI-II heifers digested DM, OM and NDF (70.84±1.48; 73.96±1.54 and 66.33±2.08%, respectively) better than those of RFI-I heifers (68.74±1.66; 71.49±1.72% and 63.05±2.32%, respectively) and thus RFI-II had higher N balance (45±8 head/d) than that of RFI-I heifers (38±9 g/head/d). Water loss per unit of water intake (WI) in feces of RFI-II (69.70±8.40 %) was lower than that of RFI-I heifers (73.41 ± 9.39%) and improved amount of water available for RFI-II for metabolism as a result of which water loss in urine proportionally increased in RFI-II (32.65 ± 2.04%WI) than in RFI-I heifers (31.84 ± 2.28%WI). Water loss per unit of DMI in feces (157 ± 18 vs. 145 ± 16 % DMI) and urine (69 ± 10 vs. 76 ± 9 %DMI, for RFI-I vs. RFI-II, respectively) followed similar trend as that of water loss per unit of WI. Mainly because of small sample size differences in nutrient intakes between RFI-I and RFI-II heifers were not significant; however, RFI-II with similar feed intake had higher N-balance, digestibility of nutrients and level of water utilization and could be selected as being more feed efficient heifers.

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The effect of protein supplement source or supply pattern on the intake, digestibility, rumen kinetics, nitrogen utilisation and growth of Ethiopian Menz sheep fed teff straw

Cited by 33 publications

References 25 publications

Effects of supplementation of Farta sheep fed hay with sole or mixtures of noug seed meal and wheat bran on feed intake, digestibility and body weight change

Effects of supplementation of Farta sheep fed hay with sole or mixtures of noug seed meal and wheat bran on feed intake, digestibility and body weight change

Supplementation of different level of corn silage with linseed meal on performance of black head Ogaden sheep fed grass hay

Residual Feed Intake, Digestibility of Nutrients and Efficiency of Water Utilizations in Murrah Buffalo Heifers

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