Abstract
Effect of Replacing Alfalfa Hay with Acacia Foliage on the Growth Performance, In Vitro Gas Production and Rumen Fermentation in Goats
Highlights
Some countries suffer from a lack of water resources, leading to a shortage of green fodder and more depending on concentrate feeds
There were significant differences (p
The values of Metabolizable energy (ME), net energy (NE), organic matter digestibility (OMD) and Microbial protein (MP) attributed to the amount of gas produced at 24 h for the A30 and A40 diets whereas it lower than those for the C and A20 diets because the energy values and OMD were calculated from the amount of gas produced after 24 h of incubation period and MP was calculated using OMD (Menke and Steingass, 1988; Tabacco et al, 2006)
Summary
Some countries suffer from a lack of water resources, leading to a shortage of green fodder and more depending on concentrate feeds These changes in turn lead to higher costs of animal feeds and a subsequent increase in the prices of meat and milk. Acacia (Acacia saligna), a leguminous shrub species are available in numerous countries, it had high phenolic compounds such as tannins (condensed tannins and hydrolysable tannins), and it can be used in ruminant diets to protect highly degradable protein sources such as soybean meal (SBM) from degrading in the rumen (Abarghuei et al, 2015) This goal may have been pursued to an extreme, and it is apparent that the rumen is occasionally deficient in nitrogen from amino acids
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