Twenty-four Merino lambs were allocated to three dietary treatment groups determine the effects of a starch and protein binding agent heat stress on methane (CH4) emissions rumen parameters. The diets wheat-based diet (WD), 2% Bioprotect™ (Bioprotect™, RealisticAgri, Rutland, UK) treated (BD), maize-based (MD) for 3 periods 1-week duration. During Period 1 (P1) maintained under thermoneutral co...

Investigating the Effect of Replacing Soybean Meal with Poultry Slaughterhouse Waste Mixed Rice Bran and Urea on Performance, Blood Rumen Parameters Fattening Lambs

An experiment was carried out to evaluate how interactions between forage to concentrate ratio and dietary crude protein level may alter nitrogen efficiency and UT-B expression in growing Baluchi male lambs. Four Baluchi male lambs [30 ± 2 kg BW] were used in a 4 × 4 latin square design with 28-d periods and a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of dietary treatments. The treatments fed forage: concent...

this experiment was designed to evaluate the effect of phenolic components of scrophularia striata powder on feed intake, digestion and fermentation, rumination kinetic and rumen ecosystem in lori-bakhtiari sheep. in this experiment, 12 six months old lambs and average weight 30±1.5 kg were fed with 0 (control), 3 and 6 percent scrophularia striata for one month. feed intake, digestibility, rum...

abstract             the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ajowan essential oils (aeo) on rumen fermentation using in vitro gas production. therefore, different doses of aeo (i.e., 0, 150, 300, 450 or 600 ppm) were added to the syringes of the gas production. a typical diet of growing lambs was used as fermentation substrate.  at the first step, the gas production syringes were in...

The influence of medium-chain fatty acids (5% coconut oil) introduced in a starter diet (ALc) for 21 d after weaning was investigated in 230 Lacaune male lambs. They were weaned early, intensively fattened during winter and slaughtered at a constant live-weight (39 kg). Comparisons have been made regarding the individual growth rates and carcass qualities with an isocaloric and isonitrogenous r...

Twenty seven Barki lambs, months old, with live body weight of 33.33±2.21kg were used to investigate the effects partial replacement berseem hay by fungal treated rice straw on growth performance, digestibility, rumen fermentation, some blood biochemical and immune status sheep. The animals divided into three comparable groups. Three rations prepared same roughage: concentrate ratio 40:60% iso-...

The rumen microbiota is an essential part of ruminants shaping their nutrition and health. Despite its importance, it is not fully understood how various groups of rumen microbes affect host-microbe relationships and functions. The aim of the study was to simultaneously explore the rumen microbiota and the metabolic phenotype of lambs for identifying host-microbe associations and potential biom...