2012
DOI: 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2011.09.012
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Effects of replacing corn with cactus pear (Opuntia ficus indica Mill) on the performance of Santa Inês lambs

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“…The digestibility of CP, NDF and ADF were not significantly different among the treatment groups. In accordance with the results of this study, Costa et al (2012) also noticed higher digestibility of organic matter with higher levels of cactus inclusion in the diet of growing Santa lambs, wherein, the cactus replaced 28 per cent of the corn in the diet. Although the digestibility of organic matter was higher in T3 group of animals, the digestible organic matter content (comparable to the TDN), was similar among all the three groups, evidently due to the lower organic matter content of the spineless cactus included in the diet.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 91%
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“…The digestibility of CP, NDF and ADF were not significantly different among the treatment groups. In accordance with the results of this study, Costa et al (2012) also noticed higher digestibility of organic matter with higher levels of cactus inclusion in the diet of growing Santa lambs, wherein, the cactus replaced 28 per cent of the corn in the diet. Although the digestibility of organic matter was higher in T3 group of animals, the digestible organic matter content (comparable to the TDN), was similar among all the three groups, evidently due to the lower organic matter content of the spineless cactus included in the diet.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 91%
“…The digestibility of dry matter, organic matter and crude protein increased with the inclusion of cactus in the diet of lamb (Ben Salem et al, 1996). Previous studies have indicated that spineless cactus could be incorporated in the diet as a replacement for fodder (Gebramariam et al, 2006) or grain (Abidi et al, 2009 andCosta et al, 2012). Nevertheless, the response of growth performance in lambs has been equivocal and the level of inclusion of cactus in the diet has not been clearly defined.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In nutritional terms, cactus pear is rich in energy, minerals and vitamin A (Felker, 2001;Tegegne, 2003;Misra et al, 2006) and presents high digestibility and effective degradability rates of dry matter, crude protein and neutral detergent fiber, as reported by Teixeira et al (1999), Menezes et al (2010) and Costa et al (2012).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 88%
“…Costa et al (2012) Já para o consumo de PB, as influências da substituição do milho pela silagem de jaca foram maiores e estimou-se que a completa substituição poderá acrescentar 219,07 g de PB dia -1 nas dietas com substituição completa do milho pela silagem de jaca em relação à dieta sem silagem de jaca, o que pode estar relacionado ao concentrado formulado para este nível.…”
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“…Tal comportamento pode ser explicado pela redução do NDT na dieta com a substituição do milho pela silagem de jaca. Estes resultados estão de acordo com os observados por Costa et al (2012) A conversão alimentar é definida como sendo a razão entre o CMS e o GMD, representando a eficiência com que o animal transforma o alimento em proteína de origem animal. Assim, se o consumo de matéria seca aumentou e ganho de peso diminuiu ao adicionar jaca substituindo o milho, o que resultou na piora da conversão alimentar (P<0,05) com a substituição do milho pela silagem de jaca de forma que os animais consumindo 1000 g de silagem de jaca na dieta precisaram consumir 4,5 kg de alimento, a mais que os animais consumindo apenas milho para ganhar 1 kg.…”
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