干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Effects of Diets Containing Finger Millet Straw and Corn Straw on Growth Performance, Plasma Metabolites, Immune Capacity, and Carcass Traits in Fattening Lambs

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DOI	10.3390/ani10081285
	Effects of Diets Containing Finger Millet Straw and Corn Straw on Growth Performance, Plasma Metabolites, Immune Capacity, and Carcass Traits in Fattening Lambs
	Chen, Xiaoyong; Mi, Hao; Cui, Kai; Zhou, Rongyan; Tian, Shujun; Zhang, Leying
通讯作者	Chen, XY
来源期刊	ANIMALS
ISSN	2076-2615
出版年	2020
卷号	10 期号:8
英文摘要	Simple Summary As the byproduct of crops, straw is an important roughage resource in sheep production in rural areas. Finger millet straw crop has widely been planted in arid and semi-arid area of the world. However, little is known about the effect of mixed diets containing millet straw and corn straw on the production of fattening lambs. This research evaluated the effect of whole mix diet concentrate and roughage containing different proportions of millet straw and corn straw on the growth performance, blood metabolites, immune capacity, and carcass traits of lambs. The results proved the feeding effect of millet straw substituted for 50% of corn straw in fattening lambs. As the byproduct of finger millet, millet straw is a new forage resource of ruminants. The effect of the combined utilization of millet straw with corn straw on fattening lamb production is seldom reported. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of different proportions of millet straw instead of corn straw on the growth performance, blood metabolites, immune response, meat yield, and quality of fattening lamb. Sixty-three-month-old healthy Small-Tailed Han sheep crossbred rams with an average initial weight of 19.28 +/- 2.95 kg were randomly divided into four groups, with three replicates in each group and five lambs in each replicate. The replacement ratio of millet straw of each group (Group ROMAN NUMERAL ONE, II,) was 0%, 25%, 35%, 50% at the first stage (the first two months) and 0%, 20%, 28%, 40% in the second period (final two months), respectively. The experiment lasted 4 months 10 days of the pre-feeding period. The results indicated that the body weight gain and average daily gain of group II were significantly higher than those of group ROMAN NUMERAL ONE and group (p< 0.05). The concentration of total protein in group was significantly increased compared to those of the other three groups at the second stage (p< 0.05), which proved that the protein synthesis metabolism capacity was improved with the addition of millet straw. The concentration of the plasma glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase and lactic dehydrogenase of lambs was significantly decreased in group II (p< 0.05). The combination of millet straw and corn straw had no impact on the glucose, total cholesterol, and triglycerides metabolism (p> 0.05). There was no significant difference in the pre-slaughter weight, carcass weight, dressing percentage, loin-eye area, and GR value among the four groups (p> 0.05). Furthermore, the immune response and meat quality were not impacted by the different proportions of millet and corn forage diets. The results showed that the combined utilization of millet straw with corn straw could improve the blood biochemistry metabolism capability of fattening lambs. The replacement of 50% of corn straw with millet straw could improve the growth performance and be an application in fattening lamb production.
英文关键词	millet straw corn straw lamb daily gain blood metabolites carcass traits
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	DOAJ Gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000564606600001
WOS关键词	MEAT QUALITY ; RUMINAL CHARACTERISTICS ; ENERGY-UTILIZATION ; FEEDING-BEHAVIOR ; SOYBEAN-MEAL ; DIGESTIBILITY ; SHEEP ; ALFALFA ; PROTEIN ; SUPPLEMENTATION
WOS类目	Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science ; Veterinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Agriculture ; Veterinary Sciences
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/325931
作者单位	[Chen, Xiaoyong; Zhou, Rongyan; Tian, Shujun] Hebei Agr Univ, Coll Anim Sci & Technol, Baoding 071001, Peoples R China; [Mi, Hao; Zhang, Leying] Hebei Univ Engn, Coll Life Sci & Food Engn, Handan 056038, Peoples R China; [Cui, Kai] Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Feed Res Inst, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Xiaoyong,Mi, Hao,Cui, Kai,et al. Effects of Diets Containing Finger Millet Straw and Corn Straw on Growth Performance, Plasma Metabolites, Immune Capacity, and Carcass Traits in Fattening Lambs[J],2020,10(8).
APA	Chen, Xiaoyong,Mi, Hao,Cui, Kai,Zhou, Rongyan,Tian, Shujun,&Zhang, Leying.(2020).Effects of Diets Containing Finger Millet Straw and Corn Straw on Growth Performance, Plasma Metabolites, Immune Capacity, and Carcass Traits in Fattening Lambs.ANIMALS,10(8).
MLA	Chen, Xiaoyong,et al."Effects of Diets Containing Finger Millet Straw and Corn Straw on Growth Performance, Plasma Metabolites, Immune Capacity, and Carcass Traits in Fattening Lambs".ANIMALS 10.8(2020).