STUDY OF NUTRITIONAL VALUES OF SUAEDA VERMEICULATA AND ITS EFFECT ON IRAQI LAMBS PERFORMANCE

	STUDY OF NUTRITIONAL VALUES OF SUAEDA VERMEICULATA AND ITS EFFECT ON IRAQI LAMBS PERFORMANCE
Jornal of Al-Muthanna for Agricultural Sciences
Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-15
Abstract
The present study was conducted at the Animal Farm , College of Agriculture, University of AL- Muthanna. The study utilized Suaeda vermeiculata plant fed ad.Lip and lasted 49 days from 17 ⁄ 9 ∕2012 to 5∕11 ⁄2012. 24 Arabi male lambs weighted an average 24 kg ∕ and age 4-5 months were randomly assigned to 4 experimental groups with 6 lambs per group The animals fed experimental plants supplemented with 0, 50, 100 or 150 g ∕ lamb ∕ day of barley grain respectively and were subdivided to a group of 2 lambs which were caged and fed the experimental diets. At the last week of experiment lambs were used and penned individually for the digestion trial to assess the digestion coefficients. The results revealed that chemical analysis of Suaeda vermeiculat aplant indicated low level of crude protein (4.71% ) and high levels of crude fiber, ADF, NDF and Ash. The result also showed a pronounced reductions in dry and organic matter digestibility and other feed components especially crude protein (19.32%).
Keywords
Desert plants; feed intake; digestible coefficient; Sheep

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