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Effects of green oak acorn (Quercus ilex) intake on nutrient digestibility, lamb growth, and carcass and non-carcass characteristics [PDF]

Archives Animal Breeding, 2022
The green oak (Quercus ilex) plays an important role in forest ecology when oaks are the dominant species or are plentiful. The use of acorns as an alternative to barley for livestock feeding can be beneficial for breeders.
I. Mekki, S. Smeti, H. Hajji, M. Mahouachi, N. Atti   +4 more
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The susceptibility of suckling lambs to zinc toxicity [PDF]

British Journal of Nutrition, 1977
1.Suckling lambs maintained for 4 weeks on a milk-substitute diet containing 407 g Toprina yeast/kg dry matter of diet exhibited poor growth, low appetite and extensive renal damage.2.The batch of yeast used contained 2065 mg zinc/kg.3.The kidneys of lambs offered a milk diet supplemented with the same Zn content as the yeast-fed diet (32.1 mg Zn/1000 ...
N T, Davies, H S, Soliman, W, Corrigall, A, Flett   +3 more
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FISH OIL SUPPLEMENTATION AND SELENIUM-VITAMIN E INJECTION OF EGYPTIAN EWES AND THEIR FINNISH LANDRACE CROSSBRED DURING LATE PREGNANCY: 2. LAMBS RESPONSE [PDF]

Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal, 2013
This work was designed to study the effects of fish oil supplementation and selenium-vitamin E (Se- vit. E) injection of Egyptian ewes and their Finnish Landrace Crossbred during the late stage of pregnancy on lambs response.
HAMADA MAHBOUB, SAMEH G.A. RAMADAN, RAGAB A. DARWISH, MOHAMED A. HELAL, KHALID M. GAFAAR, T.A.M. ASHMAWY   +5 more
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Meat quality of suckling lambs supplemented with contents of crude glycerin in creep feeding

Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2014
The objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of crude glycerin in the supplement provided in creep feeding on the physico-chemical and sensory characteristics of meat from suckling lambs kept in pasture ryegrass.
Ana Carolina Ribeiro Sanquetta de Pellegrin , Cleber Cassol Pires, Élen Silveira Nalério , Tatiana Pfuller Wommer , Renius de Oliveira Mello , Luis Fernando Vilani de Pelegrini   +5 more
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Feeding vegetable oils to lactating ewes modifies the fatty acid profile of suckling lambs

Animal, 2011
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of vegetable oil supplementation of ewe diets on the performance and fatty acid (FA) composition of their suckling lambs.
T. Manso, R. Bodas, C. Vieira, A.R. Mantecón, T. Castro   +4 more
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Performance, carcass conformation and meat quality of suckling, weaned and heavy lambs, and culled fattened ewes of autochthonous alpine sheep breeds

Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2021
Several local sheep breeds of the Alpine regions are in danger of extinction as a result of mountain farms being abandoned. Three fattening trials were carried out on 4 breeds of the Veneto region (Foza, Lamon, Alpagota, and Brogna) on a total of 115 ...
Giovanni Bittante, Erika Pellattiero, Alessio Cecchinato, Franco Tagliapietra, Enrico Sturaro, Maurizio Ramanzin, Michele Pazzola, Giuseppe Massimo Vacca, Stefano Schiavon   +8 more
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Effect of supplementary concentrate feeding to lambs on the growth performance and body morphometry

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2023
A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of feeding concentrate to suckling lambs on their performance. Experiment comprised 40 day old suckling lambs having 1.56 kg average birth weight, with 20 female and 20 male lambs selected randomly from the ...
J D MOHANTY, B PANIGRAHI, N PANDA, J BAGH, L SAMAL   +4 more
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Early weaning and concentrate supplementation strategies for lamb production on Tifton-85 pasture

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2014
The influence of early weaning and concentrate supplementation strategies on sward characteristics, forage chemical composition and lamb productivity were evaluated in four production systems on Tifton-85 pasture: suckling lambs not supplemented until ...
Cláudio José Araújo da Silva, Sergio Rodrigo Fernandes, Marina Gabriela Berchiol da Silva, Alda Lúcia Gomes Monteiro, César Henrique Espírito Candal Poli, Odilei Rogerio Prado, Concepta McMannus, Susana Gilaverte   +7 more
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Organoleptic and Nutritional Traits of Lambs from Spanish Mediterranean Islands Raised under a Traditional Production System

Foods, 2022
Our aim was to characterize the organoleptic and nutritional properties of meat from suckling (one-month-old) and light (around three-months-old) lambs in local breeds on the Spanish Mediterranean islands, using meat from male lambs of the Mallorquina ...
Rosario Gutiérrez-Peña, Manuel García-Infante, Manuel Delgado-Pertíñez, José Luis Guzmán, Luis Ángel Zarazaga, Susana Simal, Alberto Horcada   +6 more
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Tremorgenic syndrome in suckling lambs due to poisoning by Ipomoea asarifolia

Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Pathology, 2019
The aim of this study was to describe the clinical, pathological and epidemiological aspects of an outbreak of tremorgenic syndrome in suckling lambs associated to Ipomoea asarifolia poisoning occurred in the metropolitan region of Recife, northeastern ...
Givaldo B. Silva Filho, Hisadora A. S. Chaves, Juceli S. Oliveira, José R. P. Santos, João P. G. Silva, Marcela F. Mota, José A. S. Rocha, Joaquim Evêncio Neto, Fábio S. Mendonça   +8 more
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