The replacement of grass hay by cassava foliage hay or spineless cactus improves lamb performance

Silva, José Fábio dos Santos; Souza, Mariah Tenorio de Carvalho; Vieira, Marianna Suellen Bispo; Praxedes, Raniallef França; Almeida, Vitor Vinsintin Silva de; Oliveira, Aline Cardoso; Rangel, Adriano Henrique do Nascimento; Carvalho, Francisco Fernando Ramos de; Júnior, Dorgival Morais de Lima

doi:10.1007/s11250-019-02171-y

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“…The replacement of TH by SC or CH increased the dry matter intake of the sheep and resulted in greater weight gain, as found by Silva et al. (2020) working with the same animals as used in the present study. We suggest that the diet with CH and with SC (rich in digestible organic matter) provided a greater degradability of ruminal organic matter and increasing the ruminal digestion rate (Carvalho & Pires, 2008; Siqueira et al., 2017).…”

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Carcass characteristics and meat quality of lambs fed with cassava foliage hay and spineless cactus

Lima¹,

Silva

Souza

et al. 2021

Animal Science Journal

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The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of the total or partial replacement of Tifton 85 hay (TH) by cassava foliage hay (CH) and/or spineless cactus (SC) on the carcass characteristics and meat quality of confined lambs. Thirty-five Dorper x Santa Inês crossbred lambs were used, with an initial average weight of 16.0 ± 1.9 kg, fed with five treatment diets: 70% TH, 70% CH, 35% TH + 35% CH, 35% TH + 35% SC, and 35% CH + 35% SC. After 90 days of confinement, the animals were slaughtered and the carcass and meat data were compared using the Tukey test at 5%. The partial replacement of TH by SC increased the cold carcass weight by 3.9 kg (p < .05). The proportion of fat (%) increased (p < .05) when TH was replaced by CH + SC. The intensity of red (a*) was lower (p < .05

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Carcass characteristics and meat quality of lambs fed with cassava foliage hay and spineless cactus

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Silva

Souza

et al. 2021

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Intake of Tifton 85 chopped hay have positive effects on protein digestibility, and milk production and composition of Lacaune sheep

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Silva

Capeletto

et al. 2020

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This study compared the effects of unchopped and chopped hay on milk production and composition, feed digestibility, and physiology of Lacaune sheep. Eighteen ewes were stratified by parity (two or three), days of lactation (60 ± 3.7 days), and milk production (1.04 L/ewe/day), and were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 treatments: 1) Unchopped or 2) Chopped Tifton 85 hay. Corn silage and concentrate were also provided. Chopped hay ewes gave lower (P≤0.01) dry matter intake and greater (P=0.02) crude protein digestibility. No effects of treatment were detected (P≥0.38) for the digestibility of dry matter, or of neutral and acid detergent fibers. Chopped hay ewes had greater (P≤0.01) milk production (d 7 and d 12), lactation persistence, and feed efficiency. Ewes eating chopped hay had greater (P=0.03) protein concentration in their milk. However, there were no effects of treatment × day and treatments (P≥0.16) for concentrations of fat, lactose, minerals, deffated dry extract, or density. Ewes eating chopped hay presented lower (P<0.01) serum concentrations of urea and tended to have lower (P=0.10) serum concentrations of glucose only on d 12. However, there were no effects of treatment × day and treatments (P≥0.16) for serum concentrations of total protein, albumin, globulin, triglycerides, or cholesterol. These data suggest that chopped hay promotes lower dry matter intake and serum concentrations of glucose and urea, but improves milk production, lactation persistence, feed efficiency, and protein concentration.

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The replacement of grass hay by cassava foliage hay or spineless cactus improves lamb performance

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Carcass characteristics and meat quality of lambs fed with cassava foliage hay and spineless cactus

Carcass characteristics and meat quality of lambs fed with cassava foliage hay and spineless cactus

Intake of Tifton 85 chopped hay have positive effects on protein digestibility, and milk production and composition of Lacaune sheep

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