Effect of Water Quality on Productive Traits of Male Arabi Lambs

	Effect of Water Quality on Productive Traits of Male Arabi Lambs
Kufa Journal for Agricultural Science
Article 1, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 157-179
Abstract
The present study was conducted at Animal Farm-College of Agriculture – Basrah University. The study started at 1st of Jan and lasted up to 1st of April 2009 to find out the effect of drinking water of different sources on some growth some reprodactivetraits of Arabi male lambs Twenty Arabi male lambs were assigned equally in to five treatment groups 4 each all groups were given diet consisting of 60% barley, 38% wheat barn, 1.5% urea and 0.5% salt the first group was kept on tap water (control) the second group was kept on rivers osmosis (R.O) water where as the third group was supplied river water containing 6000 mgL salt, the fourth group was given water supplemented with 8500 mgL salt, and the fifth group was given water supplemented with 11500 mgL salt. The results revealed significantlydifferencies(p< 0.05) inlambs body weight and body weight gain and feed conversion in the two groups, followed by first group in comparison to the lambs of last three groups.feed intake increase significantly(p< 0.05) in the second groupin comparison with the other groups while water consumption was decreased significantly (p<0.05) in the second group and increase in the animals of the last three groups which had a cut diarrhea and a blindness and wool scolding in comparison with animals in the first and second groups. There animals were died in the 5th group and one in the 3rd and 4thgroups no such cases were reputed in the first two groups.

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