The Influence of Crude Sheabutter Leaf-Extracts on Digestibility and Nitrogen Economy in Goats Fed a Concentrate Diet

Yousuf, MB; Adeloye, A. A.; Olaoye, T. S.; Okukpe, M. K.; Adeyemi, K. D.; Badmus, A. H.; Ogundum, NJ

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“…A well-developed rumen is essential for optimizing productivity and enhancing the feed-to-gain ratio in ruminants [ 35 , 36 ]. In our study, the rumen’s weight and proportion to the total gastric chamber weight were higher in the AL100 group compared to the AL70 and AL40 groups.…”

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Effect of Feeding Level on Growth and Slaughter Performance, and Allometric Growth of Tissues and Organs in Female Growing Saanen Dairy Goats

Huang,

Jiao,

et al. 2024

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This study aimed to investigate the effect of feeding level on the growth and slaughter performance, and allometric growth of tissues and organs in female growing dairy goats. The trial included 10–20 and 20–30 kg weight stages with 48 female goat kids. The 24 goat kids in each stage were divided into 8 blocks based on weight, with 3 kids per block. Then, three kids from each block were randomly assigned to one of the three treatments, namely ad libitum (AL100), 70% of ad libitum (AL70), or 40% of ad libitum (AL40). The slaughter trial was conducted when the AL100 kids reached the target weight of 20 or 30 kg. The results showed that the ADG and feed conversion rate showed a linear decline as the feed level decreased (p < 0.05). Compared with the AL70 and AL100 groups, the AL40 group exhibited lower shrunk body weight, empty body weight, hot carcass weight, net meat rate, carcass meat rate, and visceral fat weight (p < 0.05) in both stages. Moreover, the AL40 group showed lower weights for skin and mohair, blood, rumen, small intestine, large intestine, mammary gland, and uterus than the AL70 and AL100 groups (p < 0.05) in both stages. However, feeding level did not affect organ indices in the two stages (p > 0.05). The bone, skin and mohair were isometric (b ≈ 1), but the muscle, visceral fat, and most internal organs were positive (b > 1) in both stages. In conclusion, feeding level affects the growth and development of dairy goats, which vary depending on the body weight stage and specific tissues and organs.

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Effect of Feeding Level on Growth and Slaughter Performance, and Allometric Growth of Tissues and Organs in Female Growing Saanen Dairy Goats

Huang,

Jiao,

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EFFECT OF MACA (Lepedium Meyenii) POWDER SUPPLEMENT ON GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND NUTRIENT DIGESTIBILITY OF YANKASA RAMS

Garba,

Yahaya,

Gaddafi

2023

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The use of phytochemical feed additives such as Maca (Lepedium meyenii) has been widely used by livestock farmers to reduce cost of production, toxic and residual effect of industrially chemical synthetic antibiotics and growth promoters. Therefore, this research was conducted to evaluate the effect of Maca power supplement on growth performance and nutrient digestibility of Yankasa rams. A total of twenty (20) grower Yankasa rams was divided into four treatment groups of 0, 5, 10, 15g/ Kg powdered Maca with five (5) rams each per treatment in a completely randomized design (CRD). The growth performance result revealed that all parameters were significantly (P<0.05) differences with the exception (P>0.05) of initial weight were T4 had the best growth performance attributes followed by T3. Profound (P<0.05) changes was recorded in Yankasa rams nutrient digestibility fed supplemented levels of Maca. There were significant (P<0.05) differences in feacal nitrogen, urine nitrogen, and nitrogen retained as percent feed intake while nitrogen intake and nitrogen retained were not significantly (P>0.05) affected with supplementation level of Maca. It could be concluded that Maca powder supplement has a profound effect of growth performance were T4 had the outstanding growth performance, considerable increases were recorded with increases level of Maca supplement on nutrient digestibility and nitrogen balances. For improvement of growth performance and nutrient digestibility, farmers are therefore recommended to supplement up to 15g/kg Maca powder into the diet of Yankasa rams, further studies are therefore recommended to fully explore its mechanisms of actions and nutritional activities.

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Growth performance and rumen fermentation characteristics of West African Dwarf bucks fed dietary Cochlospermum planchonii rhizome

Lins¹,

Chukwunyere²,

Benjamin³

2022

J. Vet. Med. Anim. Health

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A study was conducted to investigate the optimum inclusion level of Cochlospermum planchonii in diets of West African Dwarf (WAD) goats. Twenty five (25) WAD bucks aged 6 to 8 months and assigned to five treatments (T 1 -T 5 ) of five goats each were used. Goats in T 1 were given normal diet and served as the control, while those in T 2 , T 3 , T 4 and T 5 were respectively given diets with inclusion levels of 5, 10, 20 and 40% C. planchonii. Feed intake, body weight (BWT) and body condition score (BCS) were evaluated weekly from day 0 (D0) to D84, while rumen pH, rumen ammonia, urinary and faecal nitrogen were assessed on D84. The total forage intake across the treatments was comparable (p> 0.05), but the total concentrate intake by T 5 (12.1 ± 0.8 kg) was significantly (p < 0.05) lower than the rest of the treatments. Supplementation of C. planchonii was associated with enhanced weight gain among the supplemented groups. The rumen pH of T 4 and T 5 were 6.2 ± 0.04 and 6.1 ± 0.1 respectively and these were significantly (p < 0.05) higher than those of T 1 (5.8 ± 0.1), T 2 (5.7 ± 0.1) and T 3 (5.6 ± 0.1), 6 h post feeding. At 12 h post feeding, the pH of T 5 was significantly (p < 0.05) higher than the rest of the treatments, while at 18 h post feeding, there was no significant difference in the rumen pH of all the treatments. The mean total volatile fatty acid produced by T 1 (59 ± 8.9) was significantly (p< 0.05) higher than that of T 5 (37. 8 ± 6.3). It was therefore, concluded that supplementation of C. planchonii in diets of West African Dwarf goats up to 20% could exert beneficial effects on their productivity.

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The Influence of Crude Sheabutter Leaf-Extracts on Digestibility and Nitrogen Economy in Goats Fed a Concentrate Diet

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Effect of Feeding Level on Growth and Slaughter Performance, and Allometric Growth of Tissues and Organs in Female Growing Saanen Dairy Goats

Effect of Feeding Level on Growth and Slaughter Performance, and Allometric Growth of Tissues and Organs in Female Growing Saanen Dairy Goats

EFFECT OF MACA (Lepedium Meyenii) POWDER SUPPLEMENT ON GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND NUTRIENT DIGESTIBILITY OF YANKASA RAMS

Growth performance and rumen fermentation characteristics of West African Dwarf bucks fed dietary Cochlospermum planchonii rhizome

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