Hoshang Jafari; Farshid Fatahnia; Yahya Abaspor; poorya Dadvar; Saifali Varmaghany; manochehr Tahmasebi
Volume 25, Issue 3 , October 2023, , Pages 295-308
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Introduction: Water shortage, low quality soils, and insufficient supply of feed are the main limitations for livestock production in arid and semiarid regions of the word. Therefore, there is a demand to cultivate new crops for these areas as an alternative to crops, which are hypersensitive to low ...
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Introduction: Water shortage, low quality soils, and insufficient supply of feed are the main limitations for livestock production in arid and semiarid regions of the word. Therefore, there is a demand to cultivate new crops for these areas as an alternative to crops, which are hypersensitive to low fertile situation. Cultivation of acceptable-quality unusual plants, which are resistant to harsh environmental conditions is a proper way to overcome these challenges. Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) is a highly productive crop and produce a large amount of forage per unit of area. Artichoke forage has good nutritional value for ruminant animals. In other hand, artichoke as a medicinal plant contains many secondary compounds including polyphenols, cynarin, chlorogenic acid, carotenoids and natural antioxidants. Lower blood cholesterol and triglyceride and carcass fat have been reported by these compounds in animals fed artichoke products. Therefore, we hypothesized that addition of artichoke forage to diet of fattening lambs may has beneficial effects on their carcass quality traits.
Material and methods: In order to evaluate the effects of dietary artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) level instead of alfalfa on meat fatty acids profile and carcass quality traits of fattening lambs, this experiment was conducted using 24 Kurdish male lambs (initial body weight of 30.2 ± 2.35 kg) in a completely randomized design with three treatments and eight replications. Experimental treatments included: 1) control (diet without artichoke hay), 2) diet containing 10% artichoke hay, and 3) diet containing 20% artichoke hay. The experiment was lasted for 100 days including 20 d of adaptation period and 80 d of data recording and samples collection. At the end of experiment, all lambs were weighed after an overnight fast (16 h). All lambs were slaughtered, and hot carcass were weighed. The carcass was split into two equal halves (left and right). The right half of carcass was cut into six primal cuts including neck, shoulder, breast-flank, loin, leg and tail. Meat chemical composition, color parameters and fatty acids profile were measured.
Results and Discussion: The results showed that incorporation of artichoke to the diet improved the daily weight gain of lambs (P<0.05). Also, hot carcass weight and dressing percentage increased linearly with increasing artichoke level in the diet (P<0.05). Dietary artichoke level had no effect on carcass cuts percentage (neck, shoulder, breast flank, loin, leg, and tail), meat chemical composition (moisture, protein, fat and ash) and color parameters (lightness, redness, yellowness). Meat fatty acids profile (including saturated fatty acids, unsaturated fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acids) were not affected by artichoke level in the diets.
Conclusion: According to the results, feeding fattening lambs a diet contained artichoke (up to 20% of total mixed ration) has no detrimental effects on meat quality and improve their dressing percentage.
Safora Yousefinejad; Farshid Fatahnia; Mehdi Kazemi Bonchenari
Volume 23, Issue 2 , July 2021, , Pages 165-177
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The aim of this experiment was to investigate the effect of starter soybean oil (SO) and crude protein (CP) level on growth performance, plasma parameters and urinary purine derivatives (UPD) of dairy calves. Forty-eighth 3-old Holstein dairy calves with initial BW of 39.8 ± 2.4 kg were used in ...
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The aim of this experiment was to investigate the effect of starter soybean oil (SO) and crude protein (CP) level on growth performance, plasma parameters and urinary purine derivatives (UPD) of dairy calves. Forty-eighth 3-old Holstein dairy calves with initial BW of 39.8 ± 2.4 kg were used in a completely randomized design with 2 × 2 factorial arrangement. The experimental diets consisted of diet without SO and 19% CP, diet without SO and 22% CP, diet with 3% SO and 19% CP and diet with 3% SO and 22% CP. Feed intake, feces score, skeletal growth indices, plasma parameters, liver enzymes, urinary purine derivatives and microbial protein synthesis were measured. Growth performance, plasma parameters and UPD were not influenced by interaction effect of starter diet SO and CP level. Starter diet intake, average daily gain and feed efficiency were lower in calves fed SO than those fed diets without SO (P < 0.05). The fecal score and wither height of calves fed diets containing SO were higher and lower that those fed diets without SO, respectively (P < 0.05). Plasma concentrations of glucose, beta-hydroxy butyrate and total protein were lower in calves fed SO (P < 0.05). Addition of SO to the diets decreased urinary allantoin and total UPD concentrations (P ≤ 0.05). Microbial protein synthesis tended to be decreased in calves received diets containing SO compared to other groups (P=0.06). Plasma urea nitrogen concentration of calves increased by increasing dietary CP level (P < 0.05). According to this results, growth performance of Holstein dairy calves is not affected by interaction of SO and CP level in starter diet
Asma Absalan; Golnaz Taasoli; Shahryar Kargar; Farshid Fatahnia; Zohre Kowsar; Alidad Boostani
Volume 21, Issue 1 , April 2019, , Pages 11-22
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This experiment was aimed to study the effect of multi enzyme and bacterial inoculant on chemical composition and fermentation parameters of barley silage. Robovio multi enzyme was added at three levels, 0, 500 and 1000 mg/kg of barley dry matter (DM) and Prosage bacterial inoculant (a mixture of Lactobacillus ...
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This experiment was aimed to study the effect of multi enzyme and bacterial inoculant on chemical composition and fermentation parameters of barley silage. Robovio multi enzyme was added at three levels, 0, 500 and 1000 mg/kg of barley dry matter (DM) and Prosage bacterial inoculant (a mixture of Lactobacillus buchneri,Lactobacillus plantarum, Enterococcus faecium and Propionibacterium acidophilus) was added at three levels, 0, 5 and 10 mg/kg of silage DM. Chemical composition, in vitro gas production, protozoa population and protein fractions of experimental silages were measured. Results showed that multi enzyme addition decreased NDF (P<0.05), pH, ash, B2 and C fractions (P<0.01) and increased A and B3 fractions (P<0.01) compared to the control. Barley silage containing 5 mg bacterial inoculant had greater DM, pH and B2 fraction (P<0.01) and lower C fraction compared to the control and silage containing 10 mg of bacterial inoculant. Protozoa population, N-ammonia concentration, estimated metabolizable energy, short chain fatty acids and in vitro organic matter digestibility were not affected (P>0.05). Based on these results use of bacterial and multi enzyme additives for the preparation of wilted barley silage is not recommended due to their costs.
Zahra Norreh; Ali Khatibjoo; Farshid Fattahnia; Mohammad Akbari-Gharaei
Volume 17, Issue 2 , October 2015, , Pages 269-279
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Effect of L-carnitine and butyric acid on the performance and immune responses of 192 broiler chickens (Ross 308) was investigated with three levels of L-carnitine (zero, 125 and 250 mg/kg) and two levels of butyric acid (2 g/kg) in a 2×3 factorial arrangement based on randomized complete block ...
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Effect of L-carnitine and butyric acid on the performance and immune responses of 192 broiler chickens (Ross 308) was investigated with three levels of L-carnitine (zero, 125 and 250 mg/kg) and two levels of butyric acid (2 g/kg) in a 2×3 factorial arrangement based on randomized complete block design with 6 dietary treatments, four replicates and eight birds per each. Broilers fed basal diet plus feed additives (L-carnitine and butyric acid) did not have significant differences on feed intake, body weight gain and feed conversion ratio when compred to control group. Broilers fed diets containing additives had higher blood lymphocyte count than control diet fed birds (P<0.05). Primary IgG tiitter (31d) against SRBC in broilers fed diet containing 125 mg/kg L-carnitine was higher than that of the control birds (P<0.05). Skin thickness in response to PHA in broielrs fed diet containing 250 mg/kg L-carnitine alone and 125 and 250 mg/kg L-carnitine in combination with butyric acid was lower than that of control group (P<0.05). It was concluded that addition of 125 mg/kg L-carnitine and two g/kg butyric acid did not influenced broiler chicken performance while improved their immune response.