EFFECT OF FEEDING LACTATING BUFFALOES ON DIETS CONTAINING DIFFERENT LEVELS AND CONCENTRATE FEED MIXTURE OF GROUNDNUT V1NES HAY ON MILK PRODUCTION. | ||||
| Journal of Animal and Poultry Production | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 27, Issue 2, February 2002, Page 833-841 PDF (2.45 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jappmu.2002.253334 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| M. H. Talha,; R. I. Moawad; A. A. H. EI-Tahan; M. Marghany | ||||
| Animal Production Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Six lactating buffaloes. about 530 kg body weight in the 3rd- s" parity were selected randomly at. their peak of lactation to study the effect of groundnut vines hay as a substitution of berseem hay at two levels on performance of lactating buffaloes using "Swing over method to evaluate the following experimental rations: 1) Control ration (CR) 40% concentrate mixture (CM) of total OM requirements and berseem hay (BH) ad. lib. 2) 15t tested ration (TR1) 40% CM of total OM requirements and groundnut vines hay (GVH) ad. lib. 3) 2nd tested ration (TR2) 25% CM of total OM requirements and groundnut vines hay (GVH) ad. lib. The digestibilities of OM. OM and CF were higher for TR1 and TR2 compared to CR with no significant difference. While CP digestibility of CR was significantly (p < O.05) higher than those. of TR 1 and TR2. The digestibilities of EE and NFE of CR were significantly (p < 0.5) lower than both of tested rations. The TON of TR1 and TR2 were significantly (p < 0.05) higher than that of CR. while OCP were significantly (p < 0.05) lower. Milk, fat corrected milk production and milk fat percent of animals fed either TR1 or TR2 were higher than those of animals fed CR with no significant difference. From foregoing results, Integration of GVH at 60% or 75% from required DM reduced feeding cost for producing either kg milk or kg butter. it could be concluded that, GVH can be used as a substitution to BH in lactating buffalo rations at 60% or 75% from DM required and hence reduced feeding cost of milk yield. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Groundnut; vines; berseem; hay; buffalo; dairy; digestibility | ||||
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