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Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXI, Issue 1
Written by Gabriela Maria CORNESCU, Tatiana Dumitra PANAITE, Mariana ROPOTA, Margareta OLTEANU, Cristina SOICA, Alexandru VLAICU, Mihaela SARACILA, Horia GROSU

The 4 weeks study was conducted on 12 pigs divided in 2 groups (C, E). The average initial body weight for control group C was 66.42 kg±10.27 and 66.25 kg±9.88 for experimental group E, respectively. The C diet based on corn and soybean meal was characterized by: 17.46% crude protein and 3232 kcal/kg ME. Compared to diet C, the E diet had included 7.5% flaxseed meal and 1% grapeseed meal (17.60% CP, and 3200 kcal/kg ME). At the end of the experiment there were no significant differences (P≥0.05) among groups concerning the performances. All carcasses were assessed in E category, with no statistical differences between groups. Regarding meat quality, best results were noticed at E group for α-linolenic acid concentration (omega 3 fatty acid) of ham (1.29±0.04 g/100g total fatty acids) compare to C (0.51±0.01 g/100 g total fatty acids). Also α-linolenic acid concentration of tenderloin (1.12±0.03 g/100 g total fatty acids) in group E was higher compare to C group (0.6±0.06 g/100g total fatty acids), but without significant differences.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXI, Issue 1
Written by Garba SALEH, John Adisa AYOADE

This study was conducted for the nutritional evaluations of sugarcane peels as the replacement for maize offal in the diet of growing Kano brown goats for ninety days. Four different diets were formulated containing sugarcane peels to replace maize offal at 0, 25, 50 and 75% coded as A, B, C and D respectively, were compared. Twenty (20) growing Kano brown goats were used for the study. The goats were allocated to each treatment and used to evaluate the effect of feeding sugarcane peels diets on performance, apparent digestibility and economics of production. Results of the performance shows the average initial body weight and average final body weight were not significantly affected (P>0.05). Total feed cost per kg and total variable cost of production reduced as the inclusion levels of sugarcane peels increased from 0 – 75% as replacement level for maize offal without any effect on the performance of goats. Therefore, this study recommends that sugarcane peels meal can be incorporated into the diets of goats up to 75% as replacement levels without affecting the performance and nutrients digestibility.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXI, Issue 1
Written by Ibrahim Cihangir OKUYUCU, Huseyin ERDEM, Savas ATASEVER

The objective of the present investigation was to determine the change of milk production by calving season, stage of lactation and year in Brown Swiss cows. The research was carried out on Brown Swiss cows (n=30) reared at a private farm in Konya region of Turkey. Daily milk yield (DMY) values of the current lactation and lactation milk yield (LMY) values of initial two years (2015 and 2016) were assessed to be milk production parameters. To evaluate DMY, two stage of lactation (SL; 1=˂157d and 2=≥157d) and calving season (CS; 1=from March to August and 2=from September to February) groups were designed. Group differences were tested by independent-samples t-test in SPSS. DMY means for SL1, SL2, CS1 and CS2 were calculated to be 20.25 kg, 17.79 kg, 17.85 kg and 19.69 kg, respectively. LMY means of two years were estimated to be 4975.53 kg and 5961.80 kg, respectively (P˂0.001). It was concluded that milk yield level was positively affected by years in the evaluated dairy farm.

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