Studies On The Effect Of Ammoniation On The Nutritive Value Of Different Roughages In The Fattening Of Lambs
By: Talat Naseer Pasha
| Dr.Muhammad Yaqoob Malik.
Contributor(s): Dr . Manzoor | Dr.Saghir Ahmad Jafri.
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BookPublisher: 1984Subject(s): Department of Animal NutritionDDC classification: 0804,T Dissertation note: Sufficient quantity of agricultural by-products in the form of dry roughages are available in the Country for livestock feeding. The nutritive improvement of these roughages could be accomplished by proper chemical treatments. Ammoniation is one of the methods employed to improve the nutritive value of dry roughages for feeding of livestock.
A fattening trial was conducted on four groups of 64 male of Lohi lambs breed to study the effect of ammoniatin on the nutritive value of wheat straw and sugarcane pith. The roughages were treated with ammonia at 3.5 % level for 15 days and used at 22.5 % level of the four experimental rations having untreated and ammonia treated wheat straw and sugarcane pith. The experiment lasted for 84 days. Feed consumption, weight gain, feed efficiency and digestibility of the animals were recorded.
There was a significant (PLO.05) improvement in the weight gain and feed efficiency of the lambs fed ammonia treated roughages as compared with the non-treated roughages. However, there was no significant difference in the feed consumption of the animals fed different experimental rations. The digestibility trial revealed that the differences with regard to the digestibility of dry matter, crude protein,crude fibre, ether extract and nitrogen free extract between treated and untreated sugarcane pith and wheat straw were F; non-significant. But when both the roughages whether ammonia treated or untreated were compared with each other, wheat straw had significantly higher values of nutrients digestibility as compared with sugarcane pith.
The study indicated that ammoniation of wheat straw and sugarcane pith improve their nutritive value at a significant level (PLO.05) for the fattening of lambs.
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Sufficient quantity of agricultural by-products in the form of dry roughages are available in the Country for livestock feeding. The nutritive improvement of these roughages could be accomplished by proper chemical treatments. Ammoniation is one of the methods employed to improve the nutritive value of dry roughages for feeding of livestock.
A fattening trial was conducted on four groups of 64 male of Lohi lambs breed to study the effect of ammoniatin on the nutritive value of wheat straw and sugarcane pith. The roughages were treated with ammonia at 3.5 % level for 15 days and used at 22.5 % level of the four experimental rations having untreated and ammonia treated wheat straw and sugarcane pith. The experiment lasted for 84 days. Feed consumption, weight gain, feed efficiency and digestibility of the animals were recorded.
There was a significant (PLO.05) improvement in the weight gain and feed efficiency of the lambs fed ammonia treated roughages as compared with the non-treated roughages. However, there was no significant difference in the feed consumption of the animals fed different experimental rations. The digestibility trial revealed that the differences with regard to the digestibility of dry matter, crude protein,crude fibre, ether extract and nitrogen free extract between treated and untreated sugarcane pith and wheat straw were F; non-significant. But when both the roughages whether ammonia treated or untreated were compared with each other, wheat straw had significantly higher values of nutrients digestibility as compared with sugarcane pith.
The study indicated that ammoniation of wheat straw and sugarcane pith improve their nutritive value at a significant level (PLO.05) for the fattening of lambs.
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