INFLUENCE OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS MIXTURES AS FEED ADDITIVES ON BALADY LACTATING GOAT PERFORMANCE AND SOME BLOOD PARAMETERS. | ||||
| Journal of Animal and Poultry Production | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 29, Issue 3, March 2004, Page 1111-1124 PDF (219.77 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jappmu.2004.239139 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| A. H. Mohamed,1; B. E. EI-Said2 | ||||
| 1By-products Utilization Research Department Research Department, Animal Production Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Sheep and Goat Research Department, Animal Production Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Completely randomized block design was applied to study the effect of three different natural additives mixtures NAM (NAM1. NAM2 & NAM3) on goat does performance. Forty pregnant Balady does with an average live body weight of 38.5 :: 1.5 kg (LBW) and aged 3-4 years were divided into four similar groups. The control diet (CD) consisted of concentrate feed mixture (CFM) ,berseem hay (BH) and wheat straw CNS) which was free from feed additives. Tested diets (TO) were composed of control diet (CD) plus 10 g i head {day NAM1, NAM2 or NAM3, namely TD1, T02 and T03 diets, respectively. Animals were fed according to NRC (1989) allowances for goats. Results showed that both NAM1 and NAM2 mixtures (T01 and T02 diets) significantly (P<0.05) increased digestion coefficients of OM, OM, CP and CF and nutritive values as TON, ME and oCP over those of CD diet, which had the lowest values among experimental diets. Also, NFE digestibility was significantly (P<0.05) increased for additives groups (TO 1 and T02) diets as compared with CD diet. The NAM2 mixture significantly (P<0.05) raised digestion coefficients of OM, OM, CP and CF and NFE than those of NAM1 mixture (T01 diet), while nutritive values insignificantly improved than those of NAM1 mixture (T01 diet). Both average daily milk yield (AOMY) and fat corrected milk (FCM) of T01 and T02 were significantly (P<0.05) increased than those of CD group. The highest improvement of the (AOMy) and (FCM) was recorded with T02 group, while the lowest improvement of (AoMy) and (FCM) was recorded with T03 group. Meanwhile, there were no significant differences among tested groups concerning the fat (F), protein (P), total solids (TS), solids not fat (SNF) and lactose (L) percentages which were almost similar for all tested diets. Although, values of (F, P, TS, SNF and L) yields / head {day were clearly significantly (P<O.05) higher for T01 and T02 groups than for CD group. No significant differences were detected among most of blood parameters of all tested groups. Moreover, the average feed cost / kg FCM decreased by 3.0, 13.24.and 1.5% for T01 ,T02 and T03 diets, respectively., which was reflect on the improvement of economic return by 24.71, 75.86 and 16.10 % for T01, T02 and T03 diets, respectively. as compared with the control group. This study, recommends using NAM2 mixture as feed additive with lactating does ration 0 improve average daily milk yield and economic return. Further studies are needed on a commercial scale. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Natural additives mixtures; balady goat; digestibility; nutritive values; blood parameters; milk production; economic return | ||||
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