Journal of Animal Health and Behavioural Science

Department of Animal Science, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

Publications

• Research Article   
  Effects of Different Carbohydrate Sources on the Performance, Ruminal and Blood Metabolites and Nutrients Digestibility of Fattening Male-Lambs Fed Corn Steep Liquor
  Author(s): Parmis Zahedi Moghadam, Arash Azarfar and Ayoub Azizi*
  
  The current experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects replacing dietary corn/barley mixture with molasses at levels of 0, 50 and 100 g/kg dietary Dry Matter (DM) as a ruminal fermentable carbohydrate source, in the ration containing Corn Steep Liquor (CSL, 130 g/kg DM), as a ruminal degradable protein source. Twenty four male Lori lambs were randomly assigned into three groups of eight lambs each in a balanced completely randomised design. Nutrients digestibility, ruminal parameters, blood metabolites, feed intake and growth performance were determined. Results indicated that supplementing dietary CSL with increasing levels of molasses up to 100 g/kg of DM linearly increased organic matter (L, p=0.05) and ash-free neutral detergent fibre (L, p<0.05) digestibility, while DM, crude protein and ash-free acid detergent fibre digestibility remained unchanged (p>.. Read More»
  

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